Anand Gopal Raids Quotations

Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.

If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.