Sick Taliban prisoners crowd inside a clinic at Shiberghan prison,
about 100 kms west of the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern
Afghanistan February 12, 2002. Some 3,300 forgotten prisoners from the
United States war on terror are locked in this prison in very poor
conditions. Unwanted by the U.S. because they were not important enough
in the Taliban or Al Qaeda hierarchy, they have been left to literally
rot away in prison built for 800 inmates while the authorities decide
what to do with them. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

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