Word: iraqi
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...risk of torture, or even execution, if they are handed over to Baghdad. They have also raised concerns about "appalling" internment conditions as well as a backlog of judicial cases and questions as to how free and fair the judicial process is. Overcrowding is a pressing concern. The Iraqi prison system is operating at 103% capacity, Quantock says, and as a result, more than 500 convicted criminals are being held at Bucca on behalf of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice until space opens up. Says a senior Iraqi Ministry of Justice official who requested anonymity: "We have...
Commanders at Bucca say they'll only hand over detainees to the nine Iraqi facilities that are regularly inspected by the U.S Justice Department and meet basic humanitarian conditions. They're also building a new prison in Taji, north of Baghdad, with 5,600 beds. The plan is to continue to release most of the Bucca detainees and transition the high-threat inmates over to Taji, train Iraqi staff there and then turn the entire facility over to the Iraqi corrections system. Bucca is expected to be closed by July, and the U.S wants to be out of the detention...
...problem is that Iraqis don't realize that even if the detainees are transferred to Iraqi courts and prisons, it's not like in the past," says Sgt. Assaad, an Iraqi corrections officer who was monitoring detainee family visitations at Bucca. "Saddam's days are over, torture is over. We will treat everyone based on the law." Maybe that's what some people inside and outside the wire at Camp Bucca are really afraid of. With reporting by Mazin Ezzat
...repeated his protests until the soldiers loaded their detainee into an armored personnel carrier and drove him to a nearby Iraqi National Police station. The stated mission of the U.S. Military in Iraq is to support and advise the fledgling Iraqi security forces. All detainees, therefore, are supposed to be processed through the Iraqi Army or Police, of which there are several, often competing, varieties, national and local...
...Specialist Mohammed Houbban, 43, of Morocco by way of Orlando. "He was begging to come with us," said Spc. Houbban as he walked out of the station. "He did not want to be left with them. And he just tried to kill us." (Check out a story about the Iraqi government's Mosul offensive...