10,000 prisoners in custody in Iraq: US military

[UpInArms]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-09/16/content_1084677.htm

BAGHDAD, Sept. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Around 10,000 prisoners are held in custody across Iraq, 3,800 more than the previous figure, the US military said Tuesday.

The extra number of prisoners were newly announced because they had previously not been categorized and were only recently been classified as "security detainees," Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told reporters at Abu Ghuraib detainee center, 20 km westof Baghdad.

The prisoners are held in northern Iraq currently controlled by the 4th Infantry Division, added Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade in charge of prisons and detention centres in Iraq.

Karpinski explained that the "security detainees" are those who attacked or suspected of involvement in such attacks.

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[Chico Man]

1. Where is the outrage?

Can anyone say "ethnic cleansing"?

[HERVEPA]

2. Is that what they mean by spreading U.S. style democracy?

Pretty authentic.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. Give em time, they'll get those numbers up

Once they get chains on everyone in Iraq suspected of anti-American sentiment, we'll see some very impressive figures.

[Robbien]

4. Wow, this article is misleading.

It is written to make us believe the military is providing the security of the detainees when Dyncorp was the one that got that contract award.

[oneighty]

5. Sick

Here is your liberation!

Democracy according to the PNAC.

180

[proud patriot]

6. Why can't the military get these guys to the judge on time ?

I read a story yesterday about a judge waiting
to try these prisoners ,,he's been waiting for weeks ..

I'll see if I can find a link

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. They are trying to remove the US from the #1 spot of most people

per capita behind bars.

Of course, we had to go there and put them there ourselves...

[underpants]

8. Would you believe a coffee can some plastic wrap and a rubber band?

Hilarious Maxwell Smart take off.

[underpants]

9. Aha they can stop exporting prisoners from Texas to Va. ...

and send them to Iraq.

Bwilliant

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. In Alabama, they are threatening to release thousands of prisoners

since the Repug Rednecks here voted down the tax increase. Mebbe we could send them to Iraq?

[snippy]

11. No wonder they love us and greeted us with flags and flowers.

From a related story in today's Wall Street Journal:

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In an early-morning raid on Aug. 3, American soldiers kicked down the door of Najim Abdulhussein's house and took him away, along with his 17-year-old son, Qutaibah. Their family has been searching for them ever since.

Sent to a local police station, relatives were told not to expect any answers for at least a month. Qutaibah's 16-year-old sister waited four hours in 130-degree heat at a military-information center, only to be told by a U.S. major that he couldn't find her brother and father in a database that should have contained their whereabouts. Another relative went to an American-run prison holding Iraqi detainees, where he stood at the gates speaking vainly in Arabic, while a soldier tried to tell him that all the translators were stuck in a meeting.

The only results: growing anxiety and frustration over the fate of the 52-year-old grocer and his teenage son -- and mounting anger toward the occupiers. "They treat us all the same, like we are their enemies," Ahmad Al-Naeem, an Abdulhussein neighbor, said of the Americans. "Then they wonder why people hate them and form resistance groups."

Almost every night, as part of an urgent drive to bring security to Iraq, the U.S. military carries out raids in neighborhoods across Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. Frequently, one or more male family members are taken away for further investigation. The number of detainees in greater Baghdad is now more than 7,000, according to the U.S. military.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10636628586962200,00.html?mod=todays%255Fus%255Fpageone%255Fhs

[loudnclear]

12. 10,000 more "terrorists" in the making

We will never learn.

[snippy]

13. More than 10,000 when you count families and friends.

But Whistle Ass needs terrorists.