U.S. Working to Reshape Iraqi Detainees

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Source: Washington Post

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."

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.

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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.

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

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Gee, I wonder how we would feel if a bunch of muslims were teaching Christianity to Westerners that they've occupied and detained.

[Kagemusha]

1. It's what the Saudis do in their own country.

Of course Chinese and N. Korean communists did it too, and still do it today, for communist ideology. It's been commonly known as "brainwashing" in the West.

[PSPS]

2. Gee, what next? "Arbeit Macht Frei?"

[Purveyor]

3. Just tatoo a Christian Cross and the Star of David on their foreheads and be done with it already...

:sarcasm:

[lyonn]

4. They have Muslim clerics teaching them the peaceful version

of the Koran. Still, the General sounds crude and harsh, like an arrogant SOB.

[EFerrari]

5. "The House of Wisdom"?

Gee, I can't wait until this shit comes home.

[Solly Mack]

7. Exactly

[Solly Mack]

6. horrified

I am horrified

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Imagine telling Southern Baptists they have to stop talking about Hell and damnation

and Armageddon and start talking like Anglicans instead. THAT is what the US is doing in Iraq. Why should Christianity be the only religion that gets to act inhumanely? Why should Americans have a monopoly on intolerance? Did the deity give us a special dispensation to act like assholes but the rest of the world's people have to love one another?