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| Overhaul Jails That Breed Insurgents |
| By nytimes.com |
| Published: 10/08/2009 |
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WASHINGTON — To combat Al Qaeda’s growing influence and presence in Afghanistan’s prisons, the Pentagon is creating a military task force to oversee a planned overhaul of the troubled detention operations there. The Defense Department on Wednesday named Vice Adm. Robert S. Harward, who commanded Special Operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, to lead the task force. He is currently deputy commander of the military’s Joint Forces Command. One of his two deputies will be Col. Mark S. Martins of the Army, a military lawyer who helped establish a similar detainee operations command in Iraq, and who has been promoted to one-star general. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top military commander in Afghanistan, called for the creation of the task force in late August in a strategic assessment of the war that warned that the prisons in Afghanistan, including an American-operated detention center at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, were breeding grounds for Qaeda fighters. Read More. |
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