Camp Eggers (US) (Kabul)

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Camp Eggers is a military base in Kabul, Afghanistan. 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 29 May 2004 near Kandahar.

Camp Eggers is used by all U.S. military branches as well as other coalition partners (including Australian Army, Canadian 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.

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, which is close to the presidential palace. 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.

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