More crap that leaks out, then goes away.
Instead it's a steady diet of surge worked and "CIA-Duh" still there!
"US releases 500 Iraqi prisoners from overcrowded jails; Military says 25,800 detainees still being held" by Lauren Frayer/Associated Press November 9, 2007
BAGHDAD - US authorities freed 500 Iraqi prisoners yesterday in an ongoing push to empty American jails of detainees no longer deemed a threat. But the military says it's still holding 25,800 Iraqis waiting to face charges or be given freedom.
Unreal! Over 25,000 in jails, huh? That's worse than the Saddam times.
The latest release provided only small relief to a detention system strained to the limit by about 17,000 suspects captured this year in campaigns to secure Baghdad and its surrounding belts, the military said. US officials worry the overcrowded detention camps are sapping resources and will overwhelm Iraq's struggling justice system.
The periodic releases are seen as a symbolic gesture to highlight increased security and a needed safety valve. About 6,300 detainees have been released since January.
The ceremony - held behind concrete blast walls at Camp Victory, a sprawling US base that contains several of Saddam Hussein's former palaces - coincided with other signs of progress in regaining control of former extremist strongholds since the arrival of 30,000 additional US troops earlier this year.
Yup, we won!
US troops' deaths and civilian casualties have dropped in recent months. US forces, meanwhile, have made important alliances with Sunni clan leaders to battle extremists such as Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Lie repetition, lie repetition!
The backgrounds of the prisoners, including any suspected militant links, were not announced. The military issued a press release saying only that the detainees are "no longer an imperative threat to Iraqi/coalition forces and the security of Iraq."
Yeah, all these innocent guys who get swept up in the raids!
One of the men, who identified himself as Jumaa Khashan, a Sunni from Ramadi, said he was arrested in 2005 on his way to visit relatives in the neighboring town of Khalidiya.
Khashan: "At first, the treatment was bad . . . but this year the treatment became better. I hope that Iraqis will renounce violence and work together to build a new Iraq."
In western Iraq, seven more decomposed bodies were unearthed yesterday in the Lake Tharthar area of Iraq's once-restive Anbar Province, where a mass grave was discovered five days earlier. Iraqi soldiers found the latest victims - blindfolded and handcuffed - during a joint patrol Wednesday with US forces, police said.
Last Saturday, Iraqi soldiers found 22 bodies in the same region, about 60 miles northwest of Baghdad. On Wednesday, another mass grave was found amid brush near a school in Hashimiyat, west of Baqouba, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
I wonder whose mass graves they are. Did we fill them up, or was it "CIA-Duh?"
Many of those bodies also were handcuffed and blindfolded, police said. They probably were passengers kidnapped at fake checkpoints on a nearby road leading to Baqouba, a dangerous route dubbed the "road of death."
Scattered violence continued. At least 19 people were killed or found dead across Iraq, including in the Anbar mass grave.
That where our Sunni friends dumped Al-Qaeda's?
"500 Iraqis Freed From Crowded U.S. Detention Center" by CARA BUCKLEY
BAGHDAD, Nov. 8 — Nearly 500 Iraqi detainees were released at a ceremony at a sprawling United States detention center in western Baghdad early Thursday, where they were urged by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to “start a new life, a different life from months ago.”
The ceremony, at Camp Victory in the dusty morning heat, marked one of the largest releases of Iraqi prisoners from American detention centers, which have become increasingly overcrowded since the American military buildup began in February.
Part of the surge success. Jailing Iraqis!
In an interview, Mr. Maliki said he was also considering a general amnesty for most detainees.
Maliki, moments after delivering a speech to rows of newly released detainees seated before him:
“We are working on such a project. We are thinking of having a general amnesty except for those who have committed direct crimes against Iraqis, and against our infrastructure.”
Amnesty? Amnesty? For those who killed our troops?
Or are they innocents who are getting amnesty?
In that case, we had innocents incarcerated?
The number of Iraqi detainees held by the American-led military forces has jumped to 25,800, from 16,000 in February, said Lt. Cmdr. K.C. Marshall, a detention operations officer. Thousands more people are still detained in Iraqi prisons.
At Camp Victory on Thursday, several former detainees said that while they relished their release, they resented having been held at all.
Tariq Jabbar, 25, a taxi driver from Zafaraniya, a neighborhood in southeast Baghdad:
“I was detained in March 2007 for no reason.”
And he's getting out now? Winning hearts and minds, 'eh?
Mr. Jabbar said he had been accused of attacking coalition forces with guns and improvised bombs, but insisted on his innocence, saying no weapons or the like had been found in his home. He said he had been treated well but had not been allowed to contact his wife or four children.
Pffffftttt!
In a news release, the American-led forces said they were increasing the tempo of the releases to foster good will, but there is also pressure to free up space in the overcrowded prisons. About 6,300 detainees have been released so far this year, and the coalition forces say they have been releasing an average of 50 a day.
Yeah, it's good will, but we need more space! Pfffffftttttt!
Commander Marshall said each of the released detainees had been screened by a review board and had to pledge to an Iraqi judge to uphold peace and behave well.
I'll remember that at my dissenter hearing at the detention camp.
That's if I get a hearing.
In Baghdad, an Iraqi policeman was killed during an ambush, according to a hospital worker, and four unidentified bodies were found throughout the city, according to an official with the Interior Ministry.
In Mosul, north of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded, killing the driver and a woman nearby, a police official said. In Baquba, a city in troubled Diyala Province, American and Iraq forces found the remains of seven people in a house.
In Diwaniya, a city south of Baghdad, the security commissioner, Sheik Hussein al-Badri, announced that 17 gang members, some of them Iraqi policemen, had been sentenced to death for their role in an unspecified number of civilian and security force deaths."
Covering up all the violence still, MSM?
