US Military-Run Iraq Jail Was An Al-Qaeda 'Recruitment & Training Centre'

[Turborama]

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US Iraq jail an 'al-Qaeda school'

Extremists held in a US-run detention centre in Iraq were allowed to teach fellow detainees how to use explosives and become suicide bombers, a former inmate has told Al Jazeera.

Adel Jasim Mohammed, a former detainee of Camp Bucca near Umm Qasr, said that US officials did nothing to stop radicals from indoctrinating young detainees at the camp.

"Extremists had freedom to educate the young detainees. I saw them giving courses using classroom boards on how to use explosives, weapons and how to become suicide bombers," Mohammed said.

"For the Americans we felt it was normal. They did not stop them ."

Adel, who was held for four years without charge at Camp Bucca, said that extremists were allowed to speak freely to fellow inmates.

"In 2005, an extremist was sent to our camp. At first, Sunnis and Shias rejected his teachings. But we were told that he was imposed by the prison authority," he said.

"He stayed for a week and recruited 25 of the 34 detainees - they became extremists like him."

Continues: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009121274712823455.html

[RC]

1. Why does this not surprise me

When are we going to investigate the GW Bush Administration?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. I wouldn't be surprised if this were all calculated

After all, more terrorists = more profits for Halliburton.

Funny. In around 1981 I read a science fiction story about an interstellar war which to corporations who controlled the government would not allow to end because it was too profitable. Today it's no longer science fiction

[libodem]

3. absolutely

I've had some impressions that this type thing went on to create an enemy to justify the war-profiteering. I consider anything termed 'al Qaeda', as an American invention, especially 'al Qaeda in Iraq'. Come on, they ever had 'al Qaeda in Iraq' before the invasion and occupation.

Dick Cheney sucks. I'm sure it was all built in with CIA mentoring Blackwater and the other mercenary
forces.

Fucking pigs.

[Crowman1979]

4. You're right!

Because if that Terrorism spigot ran dry, those mercenaries would be without a job. Hence the cycle of death continues. :mad: