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General News 11/28/2009 at 6:58 PM EST

Afghans Detail Detention in â€˜Black Jail' at U.S. Base

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The jail's operation highlights a tension between Obama's goal to improve detention conditions that had drawn condemnation under Bush and his stated desire to give military commanders leeway to operate. While Obama signed an order to eliminate so-called black sites run by the Central Intelligence Agency in January, that order did not apply to the Bagram jail, which is run by military Special Operations Forces.

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