[Mb-civic] Afghanistan Agrees To Accept Detainees - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Afghanistan Agrees To Accept Detainees
U.S. Negotiating Guantanamo Transfers

By Josh White and Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 5, 2005; Page A01

The Bush administration is negotiating the transfer of nearly 70 percent 
of the detainees at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 
to three countries as part of a plan, officials said, to share the 
burden of keeping suspected terrorists behind bars.

U.S. officials announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement 
with the government of Afghanistan to transfer most of its nationals to 
Kabul's "exclusive" control and custody. There are 110 Afghan detainees 
at Guantanamo and 350 more at the Bagram airfield near Kabul. Their 
transfers could begin in the next six months.

<>Pierre-Richard Prosper, ambassador at large for war crimes, who led a 
U.S. delegation to the Middle East this week, said similar agreements 
are being pursued with Saudi Arabia and Yemen, whose nationals make up a 
significant percentage of the Guantanamo population. Prosper held talks 
in Saudi Arabia on Sunday and Monday, but negotiations were cut off 
after the announcement of King Fahd's death.

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