Iraqi prison population soaring

[Jcrowley]

The population of prisons in Iraq has soared in recent months with tens of thousands of Iraqis currently in U.S. custody without trial. U.S. troops and Iraqi government are investing heavily in the construction of prisons in the country with more than 100,000 Iraqis currently behind bars.

A parliamentary investigation commission has found that U.S. troops alone now detain more than 61,000 Iraqis and the figure is expected to swell as the Americans press ahead with their military operations.

More than 50,000 Iraqis were reported to have been arrested in the past four weeks as part of the joint U.S.-Iraqi military campaign to subdue Baghdad.

U.S. troops detain Iraqis merely on suspicion. Once detained, Iraqis may stay indefinitely as they are denied access to lawyers and Iraqi courts and government have no right to question U.S. troops’ actions.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31484&hd=&size=1&l=e

[Eric J in MN]

1. Bush has brought freedom to Iraq.

(sarcasm)

[LynnTheDem]

2. And GEORGE W. bUSH AGAIN BEATS SADDAM!!!

With MORE IRAQIS in jail, (and more in jail without trials), than Saddam Hussein ever had!

Way to go, GEORGE W. bUSH! WORSE than Saddam Hussein...and that's hard werk!

[cyberpj]

3. Did Halliburton build those too? (See Gitmo expansion) nt

[nam78_two]

4. K&R.nt

[ends_dont_justify]

5. Interesting

Wasn't one of the reasons we decidedly hung saddam due to concentration camps and the torture therein? Just a thought maybe now is a good time not to impeach bush but bring him to the UN for war crimes ;)

[jwirr]

6. You need to be patient! *ss & co. don't have quite enough slave

laborers to help out with their new oil program. The one where Big Oil and Halliburton recreate the slave labor programs of the Holocaust. :sarcasm: