A Growing Afghan Prison Rivals Bleak Guantánamo

"While an international debate rages over the future of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military has quietly expanded another, less-visible prison in Afghanistan, where it now holds some 500 terror suspects in more primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges."

"While Guantánamo offers carefully scripted tours for members of Congress and journalists, Bagram has operated in rigorous secrecy since it opened in 2002. It bars outside visitors except for the International Red Cross and refuses to make public the names of those held there. The prison may not be photographed, even from a distance."

This 4 page New York Times article on an Afghan prison camp puts a little light on a situtation that's probably worse than in Cuba and Iraq because so little information about it has come out. While much of the spotlight has been on treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, we hear little about treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan. Without a spotlight, who knows what's been going on there regarding abuses. What we need are some leaked photos. We occasionally hear of the released prisoners' complaints, but without any revelations leaked by our own people, there's nothing to prevent the sickening abuses we've read so much about elsewhere from taking place there too. And let's be real, those other abuses/tortures were not anomalies.