It is estimated that atleast 50,000 Iraqis have now been incarcerated, particularly during Bush's Iraq surge, with an average length of detention of a year and without any charge or court order: Allen L Roland
And there you have it ~ Bush's face saving SURGE is just another attempt to avoid the humiliating failure of his neocon pipedream of global domination and out of spite he is jailing thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens without a charge or court order.This is Fascism, this is the third Reich in the 1930's occupying and incarcerating the Polish people, this is America in 2007 occupying and incarcerating the Iraqi people ~ this is wrong and must be stopped immediately !
As Martin Luther King wrote ~ He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it .
Dahr Jamail files this report from Iraq on the Fascist state that the United States has created in Iraq ~ which could well be America if this action continues to be condoned by an apathetic American Congress and its indifferent citizens.
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/08/31.html
Families of Detainees Losing Hope
Inter Press Service
By Ali al-Fadhily*
BAGHDAD, Aug 30 (IPS) - Hopes are fading for early release of the large number of Iraqis detained under the so-called surge.
The 'surge' is the new effort by U.S.-led coalition forces to crack down on terror suspects.
The number of detainees held by the U.S. military has increased by more than 50 percent since the U.S. administration announced the surge six months ago, bringing the detainee population to at least 24,500, according to U.S. military officers in Iraq. The officers have said the detainee population was 16,000 in February of this year.
The U.S. military unit in charge of the detention centres in Iraq, Task Force 134, reported Aug. 24 that the average length of detention for all detainees is about a year. It reported also that there are about 800 juveniles held in detention facilities.
Estimates of the total number of Iraqi detainees vary, but most Iraqis believe the number is more than 50,000. According to Iraqi sources, as well as the U.S. military, the vast majority of detainees are Sunni Arabs from the western areas of Iraq. Most of them are detained without any charge or court warrant.
John Sifton, researcher for Human Rights Watch, told reporters Aug. 24 that "the allegations of abuse are far worse for Iraqi facilities than for those detainees in U.S. custody. It is difficult to know the Iraqi detainee population. There are both official and unofficial Iraqi detention systems."
Sifton said Human Rights Watch and other human rights organisations "have concerns about a 50 percent increase in detainees because it is 50 percent more people at risk of having been arbitrarily detained or, worse, of being handed over to Iraqi officers who might subject them to torture."
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