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| Afghan risks US fury over 'Taliban' prisoner releases | Afghan risks US fury over 'Taliban' prisoner releases |
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| Afghanistan will release scores of prisoners considered by the US to be a security threat because there is insufficient evidence against them, President Hamid Karzai's office says. | Afghanistan will release scores of prisoners considered by the US to be a security threat because there is insufficient evidence against them, President Hamid Karzai's office says. |
| A statement said there was not enough evidence against 72 out of 88 prisoners previously held by the US. | A statement said there was not enough evidence against 72 out of 88 prisoners previously held by the US. |
| Correspondents say that the move will further strain relations with the US. | Correspondents say that the move will further strain relations with the US. |
| The two countries are at loggerheads over President Karzai's refusal to sign a security deal with Washington. | The two countries are at loggerheads over President Karzai's refusal to sign a security deal with Washington. |
| The US is strongly opposed to the releases because it says the prisoners have been involved in the wounding or killing of US and Nato troops. | The US is strongly opposed to the releases because it says the prisoners have been involved in the wounding or killing of US and Nato troops. |
| Hundreds of prisoners from Bagram jail have been freed since Kabul took over the running of the prison in March 2013. | Hundreds of prisoners from Bagram jail have been freed since Kabul took over the running of the prison in March 2013. |
| The Afghan government says that there is no evidence against 45 out of 88 prisoners, while the evidence against a further 27 detainees is not enough to put them on trial. | |
| "We cannot allow innocent Afghan citizens to be kept in detention for months and years without a trial for no reason at all," Mr Karzai's spokesman, Aimal Faizi, told the Reuters news agency. | |
| "We know that unfortunately this has been happening at Bagram, but it is illegal and a violation of Afghan sovereignty and we cannot allow this anymore." | |
| American senators visiting Kabul last week said that any releases would "do irreparable damage to the relationship" between Washington and Kabul and jeopardise US plans to keep a troop presence in Afghanistan after the Nato withdrawal later this year. |