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US military deny that new prison is planned as ‘Guantanamo Two’

Posted by Charlie Kilo on June 22nd, 2008

You’d think they could think of a more clever name than “Gitmo Two”:

A US military spokeswoman has dismissed suggestions that a new prison planned for Afghanistan is intended to receive prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the detention centre in Cuba that is facing increasing criticism in America.

“This is not going to be Guantanamo Two,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Rumi Nielson-Green, spokeswoman for Combined Joint Task Force 101 based at Bagram Airfield, north of the Afghan capital Kabul. “That is absolutely false.”  

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