Government won't reveal number of prisoners taken by Canadians in Afghanistan

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OTTAWA (CP) - A Commons committee has been told the Taliban would be handed a propaganda coup if Canada revealed the number of prisoners it has captured in southern Afghanistan.

The foreign affairs committee demanded the Defence Department provide a breakdown of how many detainees had been captured since the mission began in 2002. It also wanted to know how many of those prisoners had been handed over to Afghan authorities.

The Defence Department refused Monday to provide the figures, saying they could be used as propaganda by insurgents and possibly even lead to further attacks against Canadian soldiers in Kandahar
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gee

does this mean Stockwell Day is guilty of revealing national secrets?

Mr. Speaker, in the Sarpoza prison facility just west of Kandahar city there are 838 detainees, alleged terrorists, and 138 of them are kept in what is called the national security component of that particular facility.

There are 40 alleged terrorists and other suspects in the national directory security facility, which is a separate one, and in the third facility, which is run by the Afghan police, there are 35. We have had access to those three facilities.

The opposition should cease making these false allegations and should cease carrying these allegations that are brought forward by Taliban suspects because they are hurting our troops.