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  • To address the problem, the United States is nearing completion of a project that will double to about 2,600 the number of beds at the American-run Parwan Detention Center, formerly known as Bagram prison.

    Afghan prison an insurgent breeding ground 2011

  • Among those housed in Pol-e-Charki are hundreds of suspected insurgents captured by the United States and transferred to Afghan authority because an American-run prison, with a capacity of 1,350, has long been filled to capacity.

    Afghan prison an insurgent breeding ground 2011

  • The company apparently plans to transfer operations to an American-run entity (though everyone seems a little unclear what that means).

    9/11 2009

  • And we must not forget the torture and sexual humiliation of people in Abu Ghraib and other American-run prisons.

    Letters: Curveball and the mass deception 2011

  • The first came from the United States, or rather from the American-run Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • The company apparently plans to transfer operations to an American-run entity (though everyone seems a little unclear what that means).

    Civil Rights 2010

  • The first came from the United States, or rather from the American-run Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Colonel David Haight, from the 10th Mountain Division, whose troops had just installed themselves in Logar province about forty miles south of Kabul, told me that all the Afghans wanted an American-run “Provincial Reconstruction Team” because the United States had so much more money to spend than the Europeans.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • Colonel David Haight, from the 10th Mountain Division, whose troops had just installed themselves in Logar province about forty miles south of Kabul, told me that all the Afghans wanted an American-run “Provincial Reconstruction Team” because the United States had so much more money to spend than the Europeans.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • A sweeping United States military review calls for overhauling the troubled American-run prison here as well as the entire Afghan jail and judicial systems, a reaction to worries that abuses and militant recruiting within the prisons are helping to strengthen the Taliban.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 20, 2009 2009

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