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On the recordFebruary 13, 2012
if President Karzai continues to insist on us turning over 3,044 law-of-war prisoners that we hold at Parwan prison humanely, a great center of intelligence gathering, if he insists turning those prisoners over to an Afghan legal system that does not have the capacity or the maturity to deal with them, then he is making a grave mistake.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham criticizes Karzai's potential decision to transfer prisoners to an inadequate Afghan legal system.

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