I would say no one was taken arbitrarily and no one was taken for the purpose of information gathering. Soldiers were trained. They needed to ensure that their environment was safe, and where there was doubt, through the tool of tactical questioning, they were able to determine if an individual posed a threat to them and to the Afghan civilians in the area.
So were innocent individuals from time to time picked up? Did soldiers on the ground make a mistake? Absolutely. But the fact is they took them in a controlled process, moved them back to Kandahar, where we had the luxury to make the decision, a cold, calculated decision, of whether this person was truly a threat. I would say, in general terms, about 25% of the people were immediately released because they didn't cross that threshold of being a threat.
From my standpoint, the soldiers on the ground who were trying to distinguish insurgents from local farmers made the right decisions. At KAF, we made the right decisions.