Detainees Are Handed Over to Afghans, but Not Out of Americans’ Reach
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Gen. Ghulam Farouq is not exactly the master of his own house, the Parwan Detention Facility, at least not yet.
When he goes to work at the facility, on the sprawling American air base here, he has to surrender his cellphone to the American guards outside, he said. If he wants to bring in a visitor, he has to get American military permission — for a recent interview with him, that took four days to arrange after the Afghan government had approved it.
Then, when the general gave his first interview after taking over as the facility’s commander, American military officers insisted on sitting in and monitoring the session, with their own interpreter — who frequently elaborated greatly on the general’s answers.
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