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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“I am super OK with my tax dollars being spent to turn this generation of Iraqis around.”
I agree with you.
Now thats some hard core torture right there ...
They are likely getting a better education than most U.S. students, because our military rather than our teachers’ unions are running things.
3 meals a day
hot showers
free laundry service
bed with clean linen
yard time for games
safety during and after prayers
language and trade school classes
Most of them are living much better as prisoners than before they were caught...before they even fought.
Now THAT'S cruel and unusual punishment!
A very late LOL bump!
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