Dozens of looters ransacked the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan early on Friday in the hours between when U.S. troops left the premises covertly under cover of night and Afghan forces took control. Afghanistan’s district administrator for Bagram, Darwaish Raufi, told The Associated Press that the American departure was conducted overnight without specific coordination with local officials and, as a result, dozens of local looters managed to storm through the unprotected gates of the base before Afghan forces moved in. “They were stopped and some have been arrested and the rest have been cleared from the base,” Raufi said, adding that the looters ransacked several buildings before being taken into custody. The Pentagon announced Friday it had completely vacated the Bagram facility, its biggest airfield in the country, located about an hour’s drive from the Afghan capital Kabul. Bagram’s new Afghan commander, Gen. Mir Asadullah Kohistani, said that, “we [heard] some rumor …