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2007-04-11 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So many arrests/detentions -- seems like 100 each week. Can anyone shed light on how we are handling this? Are we using Saddam's prisons? About how many troops are involved in gaurding detainees? We're not leaving "gaurd duty" to Iraqis I hope.

Posted by Captain Lewis 2007-04-11 08:32|| 2007-04-11 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Captain, I assume we've expanded capacity at the top end of the chain, Bucca (southern Iraq, huge facility) and Cropper (B'dad airport), and perhaps are keeping more guests at detention facilities down the chain, plus perhaps building additional capacity. Unless things have changed, we'd still have sole or primary custody of detainees. Detainees only come under Iraqi control if they go to trial and are convicted, after which they enter Iraqi prisons (run by the Min. of Justice, not Interior, and while troubled of course, not the disaster that any purely Iraqi operation would be). Task Force 134 is the very busy organization that handles this.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-04-11 10:25|| 2007-04-11 10:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Detainees only come under Iraqi control if they go to trial and are convicted, after which they enter Iraqi prisons

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Live and learn. So we're the ones throwing them back?

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-11 10:43|| 2007-04-11 10:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks Verlaine!

What I would love is a count, just like Terrorist Death Watch. I understand, however, that the number of detainees and prisoners is something we may not want to disclose.

Posted by Captain Lewis 2007-04-11 11:40|| 2007-04-11 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The number of detainees and prisoners won't really be a problem until it includes about a third of the population of Baghdad.

Gen. Petreaus has asked for 7500 additional MPs to guard the huge number of prisoners the Coalition is nabbing, so there may be a couple of new detention facilities, too.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-11 14:20|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-11 14:20|| Front Page Top

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