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| Iraq |
| Fallujah Jail |
| 2008-02-18 |
| Michael Totten reports from Fallujah Jail FALLUJAH – Next to the Joint Communications Center in downtown Fallujah is a squalid and war-shattered warehouse for human beings. Most detainees are common criminals. Others are captured insurgents – terrorists, car-bombers, IED makers, and throat-slashers. A few are even innocent family members of Al Qaeda leaders at large. The Iraqi Police call it a jail, but it's nothing like a jail you've ever seen, at least not in any civilized country. It was built to house 120 prisoners. Recently it held 900. Are there any insurgents in here?” I said. “No,” Sergeant Dehaan said. “They’re kept in their own cell. They are way too dangerous to be left in here with these guys.” “They’re extremely violent,” Sergeant Dehaan said as though they weren’t sitting right there in front of us. He patted his rifle. “They’re treated the same as everyone else, but they have to be segregated.” Not all Middle Eastern terrorists are alike. I have been inside Hezbollah’s headquarters south of Beirut. I brushed shoulders with Hamas leaders in the Palestinian parliament, although I was there to interview other people. Never once did I worry that the Lebanese or Palestinian terrorists would actually harm me. Al Qaeda is different. These guys are like Arabic Hannibal Lectors. Read the rest, and support independent journalism. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #3 Damn, If only we could only get 1000 or so Bubbleheads, ie. the Sean Penns, Rosie O'Donalds, John Stewarts and Susan Sarandon types to Back Up their constant criticism about how clumsily America was administering Iraq, running Abu Ghraib Prison etc. Yes goad the Brave Hearts to do the job better! Heh Super Stars It's easy, You will have all the courts power, just live and work for only 2 years 24/7/365 in regular homes in al-AnBar Province. LOL That's right they could spread good vibes driving all over the Province being HUMANITARIANS, doing this "easy" job of running Iraqi Courts and Prisons and Jails. And all their criticism of President Bush and tall talk about American blunders and "violent culture" would have to be "WALKED" by them first. Yes, by living there and taking responsibility any little policy boo boos they made would boomerang on their ass first. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-02-18 23:13 |
| #2 this part should be pushed with a fist into the face of every hyperventilating asshole (yeah, you, Andrew) who raves about the panties on the head and stupid photos taken at Abu Grahib: The famous “Red Building” in the city of Suleimaniya is a horror show. It’s a museum of sorts now, in the way Auschwitz is a museum. Perhaps monument or memorial are better descriptions. Before it was liberated by the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, resistance fighters and their family members were arrested, interrogated, and sadistically tortured inside its walls. A free-standing rape room with large windows was built just outside. Bloody women’s underwear was found on the floor after the Baath regime agents were ousted. Inside some of the cells are messages carved by children into the walls. “I was ten years old. But they changed my age to 18 for execution.” “Dear Mom and Dad. I am going to be executed by the Baath. I will not see you again.” 10,725 people were murdered in the Red Building alone by the previous government of Iraq. All died during torture. Formal execution actually took place in Abu Ghraib |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-18 19:45 |
| #1 “The nastiest ones are the little guys,” Sergeant Dehaan said. “The little rat-looking bastards. They're the ones who have done the worst things to people.” yeah, we have some like that here too. Small in stature, large in swagger. Usually get someone else to do the actual hitting (and getting hit) though. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-02-18 19:41 |