Prisoner Uprising In Iraq Exposes New Risk for U.S.

[Rose Siding]

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq -- A bloody inmate riot three weeks ago at the biggest U.S.-run detention facility in Iraq has exposed an increasingly hard-core prison population that is confronting U.S. forces with a growing risk of prison violence, according to military officers.

U.S. troops who dealt with the clash tell of a chaotic and threatening situation. They say the extent of violence surprised them. They also say the nonlethal weapons available to them at the time for crowd control proved largely ineffectual.

"What happened here on January 31st has changed the dynamics" of managing such situations, said Maj. Gen. William Brandenburg, who oversees U.S. military detention operations in Iraq and toured the facility last week. "It showed that the prisoners could hurl rocks farther than we could fire nonlethal weapons. It also showed that we have to do a better job of understanding who we have in detention."

Four inmates died and six were injured in the uprising the morning of Jan. 31, the most deaths in a prison disturbance since U.S. forces invaded Iraq two years ago. Frightened guards, some having arrived in Iraq only a month before, tried vainly to quell the rioting, spraying pepper gas and shooting rubberized pellets into throngs of prisoners, according to accounts by troops here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40411-2005Feb20.html

[Jorn]

1. Solution To The War In Iraq

Bush Brigade
The influence of George W. Bush on the American psyche is unequaled. He has been able to convince the American people to attack a country that has taken no action against America. His ability to influence has now obviously become international, as the 120,000 trained Iraqi defenders of freedom have studied George W. Bush's military history. The approach of the Iraqi Bush Brigade is to sign up with the military or police and then do everything possible to avoid combat. If Bush is successful in influencing the entire world there will be no armies for combat and peace will reign. Thank you President Bush; I didn't understand your plan when you first avoided combat in Viet Nam.

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