"bend them back to our will" the Maj. Gen. said

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/18/AR2007091802203.html


U.S. Working to Reshape Iraqi Detainees
Moderate Muslims Enlisted to Steer Adults and Children Away From Insurgency


The U.S. military has introduced "religious enlightenment" and other education programs for Iraqi detainees, some of whom are as young as 11, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the commander of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, said yesterday.

Stone said such efforts, aimed mainly at Iraqis who have been held for more than a year, are intended to "bend them back to our will" and are part of waging war in what he called "the battlefield of the mind." Most of the younger detainees are held in a facility that the military calls the "House of Wisdom."

-snip-

As a result of the increased U.S. troop presence in Iraq this year, the number of Iraqis in U.S. detention has swelled from about 10,000 last year to more than 25,000. The effort to reshape attitudes among the growing detainee population is aimed at addressing a problem that has vexed U.S. troops in Iraq for the past four years: Military detention facilities have served as breeding grounds for extremist views, transforming some prisoners into hard-core insurgents, according to military analysts.

-snip of stuff enough to make you puke-
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there is a picture of the 'will bender', but I didn't want to dirty my mouse by clicking on it


arrest the PNAC, the neo cons, the smirkers, the murderers

[hobbit709]

1. This will work as well as everything else they've done.

P.S. That picture looks like he has an extremely large corncob up his ass- and he's not really sure if he likes it or not.

[leftchick]

2. wtf? "permanent detention"???

<snip>

Stone said he wants to identify "irreconcilables" -- those detainees whose views cannot be moderated -- and "put them away" in permanent detention facilities. Psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors and interrogators help distinguish the extremists from others, he said.


this guy sounds like a fundie nut job!

:grr:

[leftchick]

3. The US is holding 820 Juveniles!!

wtf???

<snip>

The 25,000 detainees now being held in U.S. facilities in Iraq include more than 820 juveniles, Stone said, most of whom are held in the House of Wisdom, which opened last month and is located at the Camp Victory military base near Baghdad's airport. He said that six additional young people had been sent to him just yesterday, and that "the trend is towards the youth," including 11-, 12- and 13-year-olds. He described older juveniles -- the 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds -- as "harder nuts" and said that 50 to 60 of them have been removed from U.S. detention facilities and turned over to Iraqi authorities for trial.

[acmavm]

4. Yeah, in their country they need to bend to 'our will'. Well, that

blows the democracy and let freedom reign thingy right out of the water.

[donsu]

5. kicking back to pg. 1

nt