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| Iraq |
| OMG: Now Iraqi detainees are refusing to go home NOOoooooo |
| 2008-03-23 |
| BAGHDAD (AFP) - An increasing number of Iraqi detainees are refusing to leave detention centres despite being eligible for release because they want to complete studies begun behind bars, a US general said on Sunday. American Death Camps! abu ghraib abu ghraib abu ghraib! "In the last three or four months we have begun seeing detainees asking to stay in detention, usually to complete their studies," Major General Douglas Stone told a news conference in Baghdad. my panties my panties, where '0 where are my panties? The US military offers a wide range of educational programmes to the 23,000 or so detainees -- adults and juveniles -- being held at its two detention facilities, Camp Cropper near Baghdad's international airport and Camp Bucca near the southern port city of Basra. It's a Trick, a Panty Plot by the Americans Some parents of juvenile detainees, too, have asked that their children remain behind bars so they can continue their schooling, said Stone, the commanding general for US detainee operations in Iraq. The US military, he added, was not encouraging the trend. "We don't want them to remain in detention," he said. "When they are no longer considered a threat we want them to go home." Heh, don't look a Gift Horse... ~:) |
| Posted by:RD |
| #7 Lots of them are probably Sunni, Anonymoose. Are you sure the Iraqi government is ready to handle them as we'd like? On the other hand, growing their own food, sewing their own clothing, doing their own catering and clean up, and keeping records on the results thereof, could make this a self-supporting enterprise. I believe there a number of colleges that operate that way in Kentucky, and one exceedingly tiny, ultra-elite (I seem to remember they have 19 students), post-secondary institution out West somewhere. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-23 23:10 |
| #6 It is a good opportunity, especially for the juveniles. Instead of just releasing them, however, they should be turned over to the Iraqi government with the intent of training for non-military and non-police government jobs. That is, they already are learning something, so why not put them to work as municipal employees? Dog catchers, parks department, maintenance and janitorial, etc. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-03-23 21:23 |
| #5 "Please, B'rer Fox, don't throw me in that briar patch!" Clearly, reverse psychology works. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-23 19:19 |
| #4 Maybe not detention after they are cleared to go home. Perhaps a closed campus or something like that. Either way, they are getting educated and staying out of the fighting man's hair. Win-win in my book. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-03-23 17:54 |
| #3 That'd be "23,000 or so detainees" filling mass graves if they'd tried to pull their stunts under Saddam. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2008-03-23 16:59 |
| #2 They're fed, clothed and pretty safe. They're getting an education they can't get outside. And - just as a guess - some of these teens are unconsciously modelling themselves on the US military they see around them. A very different model than the men who got them into trouble in the first place. I know we can't do this for everyone, but I can certainly see why the kids and families both might want this to continue. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-23 16:31 |
| #1 my panties my panties, where '0 where are my panties? So they have fraternities on campus too? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-03-23 16:27 |