Detainees held in Afghanistan

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WORLD NEWS DETAINEES-1 7 FT

Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT

Afghan prisoner Abdul looks out from behind the bars at the Kandahar prison, Afghanistan, December 13, 2001. Dispensing with U.S. or international law as it rounded up suspects after the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration routinely captured "the wrong guys" - including a number who were working for the Afghan government. With more than two-thirds of the former detainees now released without charges, it is possible to draw a first assessment of the detention process.

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