US cedes full control of Bagram prison to Afghan forces

KABUL :Afghanistan on Monday took full control of Bagram military prison from the United States, healing one running sore in their testy relationship as US-led forces wind down more than a decade of war.

President Hamid Karzai had made the fate of the detention centre north of Kabul part of his ill-tempered push to regain sovereignty over key matters from the Americans, ahead of next year's pullout of foreign combat troops.




The United States was long concerned that a total handover to Afghanistan's weak and corruption-prone security forces would allow suspected Taleban and Al-Qaeda militants housed at Bagram to return to the battlefield.

But US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel clinched an agreement with Mr Karzai in a telephone call on Saturday, the Pentagon said, and the handover ceremony took place on Monday.

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