2nd US prisoner release in Afghanistan

The US released another 80 prisoners, some once categorized as "enemy combatants" to their families at Bagram Airbase over the weekend. This is the second such release of Afghan detainees this year, purportedly in attempt to give momentum to the attempt to promote "reconciliation" with tired Taliban fighters who wish to live peacefully.

One wonders how "peaceful" these detainees will feel after being held up to two years with no judicial process or notion of their future.

Meanwhile, the US killed four armed combatants and three civilians in an air raid in Uruzgan, a province known as Taliban Country, and police killed one protestor in Herat who was calling for the return to power of Warlord Ismail Khan.