Military retools detainee releases (4 out of 5 can be reintegrated back into society)

[maddezmom]

Source: USA Today

Only one in five detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq are members of the main extremist groups fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces, while many of the rest can be reintegrated back into society, according to U.S. military statistics and interviews.

The assessment reflects a new approach to detainees, which emphasizes isolating al-Qaeda and Shiite extremists and increasing the release of many average men caught up in the fighting.

"Our goal, really, is to release all of those who are no longer an imperative security risk," said Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone, who oversees detainee operations in Iraq. His office shared the latest breakdown of who the detainees are with USA TODAY.

U.S. commanders are not suggesting that U.S. forces captured innocent men, but some defense analysts say it is difficult to make distinctions in unconventional warfare, where insurgents don't wear uniforms and most troops don't speak the local language.




Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2008-05-19-detainees-military_N.htm

[ToughLuck]

1. Well hell,we are allowing Bush /Cheney back into society next January and those two

ARE an imperative security risk.

[LynnTheDem]

2. In other words, 4 out of 5 illegally detained INNOCENT people.

We're sure spreading freedom & democracy. :sarcasm:

[dipsydoodle]

3. Presumably reintegrated

means re - interrogated when they're back in society

[ohio2007]

4. They let that guy from Kuwait go they held in Gitmo... that blew up in their faces in Mosul

[struggle4progress]

5. That mainly shows they haven't a clue what they're doing. If you round up a large

number of randomly selected people, then you'll certainly detain good, bad, and ugly alike. Start releasing randomly selected detainees, and then you'll also release good, bad, and ugly alike

They didn't have a clue what they were doing when they started detaining people, they didn't have a clue how to get anything useful from their detainees, and -- after years of bullshit -- they (unsurprisingly) still didn't have a clue what they were doing when they started releasing folk