Prisoners tagged by US as terrorist to be freed

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Afghanistan on Thursday said it would release alleged Taliban fighters tagged by the United States for the death of over a hundred people, including at least 60 from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A statement said Afghan President Hamid Karzai “ordered the Bagram prisoners’ dossier review board to free those prisoners who are innocent and against whom there is no evidence.” US General Joseph Dunford, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, earlier lodged an official objection over the releases. The releases will further strain US-Afghan relations as pressure mounts for the two countries to sign the long-delayed Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) allowing some American soldiers to stay in the country after 2014. President Barack Obama’s deputies said that unless the deal is signed, there will be no option but to prepare for a full US troop exit – the so-called “zero option.”

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