Posted on 03/23/2008 10:54:07 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
An increasing number of Iraqi detainees are refusing to leave detention centres despite being eligible for release because they want to complete studies begun behind bars, a US general said on Sunday.
"In the last three or four months we have begun seeing detainees asking to stay in detention, usually to complete their studies," Major General Douglas Stone told a news conference in Baghdad.
The US military offers a wide range of educational programmes to the 23,000 or so detainees -- adults and juveniles -- being held at its two detention facilities, Camp Cropper near Baghdad's international airport and Camp Bucca near the southern port city of Basra.
Some parents of juvenile detainees, too, have asked that their children remain behind bars so they can continue their schooling, said Stone, the commanding general for US detainee operations in Iraq.
The US military, he added, was not encouraging the trend.
"We don't want them to remain in detention," he said. "When they are no longer considered a threat we want them to go home."
Teachers at the House of Wisdom school at Camp Cropper told AFP recently that parents of juvenile detainees had asked that siblings be locked up with their brothers so they too could benefit from the educational programmes offered at the camp.
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Iraqi Jailbreak = breaking INTO jail.
Great news!
Five years and AP has finally found a story other than “panties on heads” to talk about. Excellent reporting folks...
Has anyone notified the Liberal, hand wringing, anti-military morons in Congress and the morons in the media?
This is excellent news. Hopefully they will be able to prosper with the education they receive and will no longer be involved in terrorist activities.
OR start playing Yoko Ono and Cher 24/7
Stay in school...I mean jail...ping.
I wish the article would have said what these folks were studying.
I see it as promising as well.
I understand why the military doesn’t want to encourage it, but...hey, that is what they have to do nowadays.
They should find a way to do this without keeping them incarcerated. I can’t imagine they couldn’t divert a little oil revenue to that project...it can’t be huge numbers.
Just more examples of Bush’s torture program.
Probably the disciplines they’ll need to get jobs in a couple years, and prepping the best of them for college.
I am super OK with my tax dollars being spent to turn this generation of Iraqis around.
I imagine some of them might receive military training, too.
Train them to be guards and live on grounds.
I guess that these are the people who love to run around with used panties on their heads and enjoy their daily waterboarding.
They'd just use it as move evidence how the Iraq infrastructure under "this Administration continues to decay" and how detainees receive a better education in prison than they do in Iraqi public schools.
You KNOW this is exactly how the scumbag Left will spin this.
Those camps are probably much better places to be than any jail in the US.
I wonder if education is a cover for saying its safer behind bars.
It’s ALL Bush’s fault!
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