Iraq 'incapable of running jails'

[DoYouEverWonder]

28 December 2005

A senior Iraqi official has said the government is incapable of managing prisons, hours after an attempted jail break left at least nine people dead.

Deputy Justice Minister for Prisons Bhushu Ibrahim Ali said the authorities lacked the technical and financial capacities needed to supervise prisons.

The failed Baghdad escape bid was the result of negligence, he told the BBC.

He accused the government of asking the US to hand over control of Iraqi jails for domestic political purposes.

The shootings in Baghdad come only days after the US said it would not hand over detainees to the Iraqi authorities until they raised levels of care in prison facilities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4565190.stm

Well neither can the Americans, so now what should we do? Maybe we should just give Iraq back to Saddam and ask for a do over?

[acmavm]

1. "...lacked the technical and financial capacities ..." Oh hell yes, we'll

send some more Americans and a couple billion more. Why not, we've pretty well ruined our military and bankrupted the country on this fiasco, lets just send what/who's left.

[saigon68]

5. The AMERICANS do not lack the capacities

HELL LOOK AT OUR GREAT VICTORIES AND HUMANE TREATMENT OF THE (insert racial epithet here)HEADS

[Xipe Totec]

2. Self-Deleted

Posted to the wrong thread. Sorry.

[MrPrax]

3. Confused...

From the article:

"The shootings in Baghdad come only days after the US said it would not hand over detainees to the Iraqi authorities until they raised levels of care in prison facilities."

"The US military said four wardens, four prisoners and an interpreter died in a jail at the Adala military base in Kadhimiya, but there are reports of up to 20 deaths.

Five prisoners and a US soldier were wounded, the US military added. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4565190.stm


From another article:

One inmate snatched a Kalashnikov rifle from a guard as a handful of high-risk prisoners were taken out at dawn to clean the yard, a guard from the Baghdad prison told Reuters. After raiding the prison armoury, the group freed more comrades but US and Iraqi troops based around the jail quelled the revolt.

Five staff and four inmates were killed and five prisoners and a US soldier were wounded, the US military said, denying assertions by police, including an Interior Ministry general, that the death toll was at least 20 among the detainees, who include some of the most violent of Iraq's insurgents.

Officials put the number of prisoners at the Kadhimiya maximum security jail at over 200. It lies inside the sprawling Adala military base, known to Americans as Camp Justice and once used by Saddam Hussein's secret police.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3525373a12,00.html

It's a little confusing in that it appears to be a prison in a US military base, run by the US in which US troops took part and were wounded--but the Iraqis are the morons that can't run a prison.

Anyone else confused?

[mom cat]

4. War is peace. Ask Orwell to help you work through your confusion.

[Vidar]

6. Let's see --do we put Halliburton or Blackwater in charge?