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To: LindyBill who wrote (169842)	6/14/2006 8:46:16 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793896

US to extradite Afghans at Guantanamo The Democrats should be very careful what they wish for...If ANY of these people who will be let out of Gitmo, cause even the life of one American or any of our allies, I think there will be hll to pay. We know how many and who want Guantanamo to close....they have been pretty vocal about it. US to extradite Afghans at Guantanamo: Afghan official* Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:46 PM ET today.reuters.com By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - The United States will soon extradite all 96 Afghans, including several senior Taliban officials, being held at its Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorist suspects, an Afghan government official said on Wednesday. The prisoners were being extradited as part of an understanding reached between President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai last year and would be tried by Afghan courts, said Abdul Jabar Sabit, an interior ministry official. Bush acknowledged on Wednesday that the U.S. military prison in Cuba, where three prisoners hanged themselves last week, has damaged the U.S. image abroad and should be shut down. European nations have also called for the prison to be shut down as soon as possible. Some of the prisoners would be transferred immediately and the others would be sent back to Afghanistan later, said Sabit. "All of the Afghan prisoners will be extradited in different batches," said Sabit, who was member of an official delegation which recently visited Guantanamo Bay, told a news conference. He said several senior Taliban officials, including a commerce minister in the radical Islamist regime overthrown in 2001, were among those being held in U.S. prison in Cuba. He did not give the name of the minister. "Those who are innocent will be released and those who have committed crimes will be punished," he said. U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, declined to confirm whether Afghan detainees would be released soon, saying, "Due to security concerns, we do not discuss details of detainee movements until after completion of the movement." Gordon said that about 120 of the roughly 460 detainees at the prison in the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, have been deemed eligible to be transferred to the custody of another government or released. Gordon noted that a maximum security cell block is being built in Afghanistan's Pol-e-Charkhi prison to receive detainees from Guantanamo, and that the facility is due to be completed in December. Afghanistan has been undergoing its most serious spell of militant violence since the fall of the Taliban. More than 900 people have been killed this year, with more than 400 in May alone. The U.S. military opened Guantanamo as a prison camp for suspected Islamic militants in 2002, mostly suspected al Qaeda members captured in Afghanistan. The prison, where detainees are held indefinitely without trial, has drawn strong criticism from foreign governments and rights groups. Many former Afghan and other inmates have complained of being mistreated, tortured physically and mentally by the military during their detentions. Sabit said the Afghan delegation met with all 96 prisoners and found them living in "humane" conditions. He said only a few inmates complained about the treatment by U.S. soldiers. (Additional reporting by Will Dunham in Washington)