Camp Eggers

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Camp Eggers is a military base in Kabul, Afghanistan.^[1] located near the the US Embassy and the President's Palace. The camp is named after Capt. Daniel W. Eggers, a US soldier who was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) along with three other soldiers on May 29th 2004.

1 Overview
2 Noted personnel
3 Use as a detainment facility
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 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 is home to the Combined Forces Command Afghanistan (CFC-A), and Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan (CSTC-A). Its roles include training Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police and assisting with provincial reconstruction projects such as school reconstruction and road repair.

[edit] Noted personnel

Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, commander.

[edit] Use as a detainment facility

News sources report 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 the Ariana Hotel, which is close to the presidential palace. CIA officials have occupied the hotel since 2001.^[2]^[3]