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Fallujah Jail
Michael Totten reports from Fallujah JailFALLUJAH Next to the Joint Communications Center in downtown Fallujah is a squalid and war-shattered warehouse for human beings. Most detainees are common criminals. Others are captured insurgents terrorists, car-bombers, IED makers, and throat-slashers. A few are even innocent family members of Al Qaeda leaders at large. The Iraqi Police call it a jail, but it's nothing like a jail you've ever seen, at least not in any civilized country. It was built to house 120 prisoners. Recently it held 900. Are there any insurgents in here? I said. No, Sergeant Dehaan said. Theyre kept in their own cell. They are way too dangerous to be left in here with these guys. Theyre extremely violent, Sergeant Dehaan said as though they werent sitting right there in front of us. He patted his rifle. Theyre treated the same as everyone else, but they have to be segregated. Not all Middle Eastern terrorists are alike. I have been inside Hezbollahs headquarters south of Beirut. I brushed shoulders with Hamas leaders in the Palestinian parliament, although I was there to interview other people. Never once did I worry that the Lebanese or Palestinian terrorists would actually harm me. Al Qaeda is different. These guys are like Arabic Hannibal Lectors. Read the rest, and support independent journalism. Posted by: Glenmore 2008-02-18 |
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