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.Not quite the gulag that America's enemies have been depicting, is it?
"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.
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.
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.
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Friday, March 06, 2009
Enjoying captivity so much
Here's a funny twist - some of those detainees we've been keeping in Iraq don't want to leave. They want to stay and complete the education they've begun while in detention.
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It must be because of Obama and Hillary's new "talk nicely and everybody will love us - Kumbayah" policies. Yeah, riiight.
Really? You expect rational behaviour from humans who have not been charged with crimes, human rights denied, tortured, and abused to be rational? Amazing. Any volunteers to be in the control group?
At what point will these detainees want to come over here and teach elementary education in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago?
Harry, et al-Ah the joys of not reading the link. Unless of course you are suggesting that the UN is torturing prisoners with the approval of the Red Cross?
Or the parents that were asking for the younger sons being admitted to the prison irrational because of some virus that jumps from prisoner to prisoner and then maybe prisoner to family? Or the fact that AFP, which has been only to glad to publicize any mistake the US made and any that never occured released a slight mea culpa in this article by pointing out that the Americans were treating the detainees, who they were allowed to hold under the current UN Resolutions 1511 and 1770, well.
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