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The U.S. has also taken advantage of Afghanistan's lawlessness to convert its bases there into what one human rights advocate called "an enormous U.S. jail." They have several large jails and detention facilities there, and smaller ones at more than 20 compounds around the country, where they hold more than 1,500 prisoners—Afghans and other nationalities. Nobody is really sure how many there are, because the U.S. military won't say
The U.S. has also taken advantage of Afghanistan's lawlessness to convert its bases there into what one human rights advocate called "an enormous U.S. jail." They have several large jails and detention facilities there, and smaller ones at more than 20 compounds around the country, where they hold more than 1,500 prisoners—Afghans and other nationalities. Nobody is really sure how many there are, because the U.S. military won't say
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