Well, one can hope. Thanks Cindy.
BAGHDAD - MORE and more youths, some only 10, are being influenced by Al-Qaeda to join the insurgency in Iraq, US generals said on Monday, adding that 2,000 members of the jihadi group are being held in Iraqi prisons. The number of juveniles in detention had jumped from 100 in January to about 950 now, many of them roped into the anti-American insurgency by the Iraqi affiliate of Al-Qaeda, the officers said.
Al-Qaeda is targeting the 'young and the most impressionable. I equate them with drug dealers,' said Major General Douglas Stone, head of the US military's detention operations in Iraq. 'It is a real concern. If I can break their back, I would do it,' he said at his office in Camp Cropper, one of the two US-run prisons in Iraq. The jail near Baghdad airport holds around 4,000 of the nearly 26,000 people detained by the US military in he country. The rest are in Camp Bucca in the southern port city of Basra.
Of the 4,000 prisoners in Camp Cropper, 950 are juveniles, some as young as 10. Most are aged between 15 and 17 and are being held for offences ranging from 'planting bombs to picking up a gun and firefighting,' said Brigadier General Michael Nevin of the US military police.
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