A view of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan from the Air Traffic Control Tower Tags: Bagram Air Base View |
can use U S civilian courts to challenge their detention at a military air base in Afghanistan for the first time extending rights given to Guantanamo Bay detainees elsewhere in the world U S District Judge John Bates turned down the United States motion to deny the right to three foreign detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan The U S Supreme Court ruled last year Tags: Bagram Air Base View |
withheld information on the detainees at Bagram air base in Afghanistan from a U S federal judge questioning whether the prisoners have the right to challenge their detention in U S courts The U S Justice Department filed yesterday its response to District Court Judge John Bates request for updated information on the Bagram detainees how many people are being held how Tags: Bagram Air Base View |
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Bagram Air Base - known and referred to by US military as Bagram Airfield - Airport codesOAIX is a militarized airport and housing complex that is located next to the ancient city of Bagram, Convert11km southeast of Charikar in Parwan province of Afghanistan. It is often referred to as Bagram Air Base, however the senior mission commander at Bagram is an Army two-star general, making it an Army Airfield in US military parlance. The base is currently occupied and maintained by the Combined Joint Task Force 82nd Infantry Division. (CJTF-82) The airfield is occupied and maintained by 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade (Task Force Falcon) and 2/3 GSAB (Task Force Knighthawk) of the United States Army, with the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing of the United States Air Force and other U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, and their NATO/ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) coalition partner units having sizable tenant populations.
Bagram Air Base has three large hangars, a control tower, and numerous support buildings. There are more than 32 acres (130,000 m�) of ramp space and five aircraft dispersal areas, with a total of over 110 revetments. Many support buildings and base housing built by the Soviet Armed Forces during their occupation (Soviet occupation of Afghanistan) were destroyed by years of fighting between various warring Afghan factions after the Soviets left. New barracks and office buildings are slowly being constructed at the present time. There is also Bagram Theater Internment Facility, a detention centre which has been criticized in the past for its abusive treatment of prisoners (Bagram torture and prisoner abuse). In May 2010, the International Committee of the Red Cross revealed that since August 2009 it was informed by US authorities about inmates of a second prison (Black jail) where detainees are held in isolation and without access to the International Red Cross that is usually guaranteed to all prisoners.
The ICAO ID is OAIX and it is specifically at 34.944N, 69.259E at Convert1492m above sea level. The base had a single Convert3003m runway built in 1976. A second runway, Convert3500m long, was built and completed by the US military in late 2006, at a cost of USD$68 million. This new runway is Convert497m longer than the previous one and Convert280mm thicker, giving it the ability to land larger aircraft, such as the C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III or the Boeing 747.
Icao: OAIX
Type: Military
Owner: Government of Afghanistan
Operator: United States Army
Birth Location: Bagram, Afghanistan
Elevation-f: 4,895
Elevation-m: 1,492
Coordinates: Coord345646N0691554Etype:airport_region:AF
Metric-rwy: y
Number on List: 03/21
R1-length-f: 9,852
R1-length-m: 3,003
R1-surface: Concrete
Number on List: 03/21
R2-length-f: 11,000
R2-length-m: 3,500
R2-surface: Concrete