The Wall Street Journal reports the U.S. military is planning to retain control over part of its controversial detention facility at Bagram Air Field, even after nominal control has been handed over to the "sovereign" Afghan government.
![[A US officer silhouetted at the Bagram prison. "The entire world is not a battlefield," says Melissa Goodman of the ACLU. "We cannot just capture people far from any zone of armed conflict and lock up them up indefinitely without any access to the courts or due process.(AFP)]](http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/bagram_critique.jpg "bagram_critique.jpg")
A US officer silhouetted at the Bagram prison. "The entire world is not a battlefield," says Melissa Goodman of the ACLU. "We cannot just capture people far from any zone of armed conflict and lock up them up indefinitely without any access to the courts or due process.(AFP)
A US officer silhouetted at the Bagram prison. "The entire world is not a battlefield," says Melissa Goodman of the ACLU. "We cannot just capture people far from any zone of armed conflict and lock up them up indefinitely without any access to the courts or due process.(AFP)A 'prison within a prison', facility is shrouded in secrecy.
