A by-product of the SURGE SUCCESS!!!
"Thousands of New Prisoners Overwhelm Iraqi System"
"The American troop increase in Iraq over the past year has been accompanied by waves of new Iraqi detainees, inundating the country’s already overburdened prisons and courts, according to embassy officials speaking on Wednesday.
American advisers say that Iraq’s nascent justice system does not have enough prison beds, investigative judges, lawyers or adequate facilities to absorb the thousands of suspects that have been detained since last summer by augmented American and Iraqi security forces. More than half of about 26,000 prisoners are still awaiting trial, and some have languished in custody for years, American officials said....
The ministry will also have to receive many of the 24,000 additional prisoners being held in separate American military prisons like Camp Bucca in southern Iraq and Abu Ghraib, north of Baghdad."
So that is 50,000 or so Iraqis in prison!!
Ah, LIBERATION!
United States justice advisers briefed reporters at the American Embassy in the Green Zone on Wednesday during a surprise visit to Baghdad by Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Mr. Mukasey met with Gen. David H. Petraeus, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and top Iraqi legal officials, including Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud. The visit was Mr. Mukasey’s first to Iraq since becoming attorney general.
WTF is Mukasey doing in Iraq?
WE HAVE PROBLEMS here at HOME, shitter!!!!!
“Our efforts, combined with those of the Departments of State and Defense, have already resulted in significant progress,” said Mr. Mukasey, praising the 200 Department of Justice employees working on “rule of law” issues in Iraq....
How about working on RULE of LAW issues BACK HERE in the United States?!?!
You think this guy is better than Gonzales, readers?
I don't see any difference!!!!!!
Many Iraqi courthouses lack computers, telephones, or law books. His team advises their Iraqi counterparts on legal curricula and due process, but they are also fitting out courtrooms with heating units....
Where did all that reconstruction money go, readers?
Who stole it?
Thousands more prisoners are held by other agencies despite findings in 2006 that such disparate detainee systems hindered oversight and led to human rights abuses...."
Not like the U.S. has any right or standing to comment or anything.
WE TORTURE!!!!
