Camp Eggers

", Central Command] located near the US Embassy and the President of Afghanistan's Palace. The camp is named after Capt. Daniel W. Eggers, a US soldier from the 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) along with three other soldiers on May 29th, 2004 near Kandahar.

Overview

Camp Eggers is used by all U.S. military branches as well as other coalition partners (including Australian Army, New Zealand, Romania, and Germany), and was home to the Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan (CFC-A), and Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A). CFC-A was disestablished in early-2007 while CSTC-A continues to train the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police and are assisting with provincial reconstruction projects such as school reconstruction and road repair.

Noted personnel

* Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, former Commander, Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan.

Lt. Gen David Barno, first Commander of Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan.

Alleged use as a detainment facility

Unconfirmed news sources reported that a government entity, suspected to be the CIA, used the facility for extrajudicial detention of suspected terrorists. The New York Times reported that midlevel Afghan intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the reporter that they were aware of several places where U.S. forces detain people; some named Camp Eggers, in addition to the Ariana Hotel, which is close to the presidential palace. CIA officials have occupied the hotel since 2001. [ [http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/12/18/news/kabul.php Guantánamo detainees tell of torture in Afghanistan] , "International Herald Tribune", December 19 2005] [ [http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2005/12/25/4319.shtml Secret CIA torture chambers in Afghanistan] , "Kavkaz", February 28 2006]

While its status as a former detention facility is disputed, Camp Eggers is in one of the busiest parts of the city and the route to Kabul International takes roughly twenty minutes through city traffic. The Ariana and Serena Hotels are both Afghan managed and are still used for lodging by various militaries and organizations.

References

* Eikenberry interviewed by Anderson Cooper, September 11, 2006.Fact|date=February 2007

External links

* [http://oneteam.centcom.mil/ CSTC-A's Official Website]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/kabul.htm Camp Eggers] from Globalsecurity.org
* [http://www.cfc-a.centcom.mil/ CFC-A's Official Website]
* [http://www.cfc-a.centcom.mil/BIOS/Lt%20Gen%20Eikenberry%20Biography.htm Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry]