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TweetHere we see what the Iraqis really think of the American forces in Iraq. They know that despite our making jihadis play naked twister and mocking their lack of endowment, we are still 100 times more humane and civil with our prisoners compared to the Iraqis themselves.
Some worried about detainee transfer to Iraq
CAMP CROPPER, Iraq — Rana Karapha gazed through a Plexiglas partition and wondered when her husband on the other side would come home.More than a year after U.S. soldiers raided their home and brought him to this detention center near Baghdad, he is still being held without charges. Now he has another worry: a possible transfer to an Iraqi-controlled prison.
“We are afraid if the Iraqi forces took him. The treatment there is very bad,” Karapha, 28, said during a recent visit with their two preschool children.
She said she has a brother-in-law in an Iraqi prison who has been beaten and must pay bribes for food and showers. The detention center here, operated by the U.S. military, is better, she said.
Starting Feb. 1, the U.S. military will release up to 1,500 detainees a month to the Iraqis, as part of the security agreement that went into effect Jan. 1 to give the Iraqi government more authority.
The pact calls for the U.S. military to transfer wanted criminals to Iraqi custody. All other detainees must be released “in a safe and orderly manner.” A record 18,500 Iraqi detainees were freed in 2008. No one has been let go since New Year’s Day, and 15,100 remain.
“We’re a turnstile operation now,” said Lt. Col. Brad Graul as he walked through the processing center where detainees will be given a set of clothes and $25 in Iraqi dinars.
The first 1,500 to be released are considered low-risk because they joined the insurgency for money or because their families were threatened. The military is scrambling to ensure there is no way out for 5,000 “unreconcilables,” as Brig. Gen. David Quantock calls the most hardened prisoners.
About 400 of those men have been convicted by Iraqi courts and are being held until space opens in Iraq’s overcrowded prisons. An additional 1,600 have been charged and await trial. The remaining 3,000 men considered high-risk threats await charges.
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