U.S. Military May Abandon Abu Ghraib

[DoYouEverWonder]

March 8, 2005, 2:39 AM EST

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Incessant attacks against Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison may force the U.S. military to return the facility to Iraq's government and take their own high-security prisoners to a safer place, a U.S. military official said.

As the U.S. mulls over a plan to pull out of the notorious facility, located on the outskirts of the capital, U.S. military figures show that a crackdown against insurgents before and after Jan. 30's landmark parliamentary elections has bloated Iraq's prison system to the breaking point.

"The reason we would like to move our operations from Abu Ghraib is that it has been regularly targeted with attacks from insurgents. The new facility would be within the larger Baghdad International Airport complex, making it less susceptible to attacks," Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for Iraq Detention Operations, told The Associated Press.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-prisons,0,1267572.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


Didn't we already spends millions fixing the place up after the abuse scandal broke?

[ogradda]

1. perhaps if they weren't using the term "terrorist" so broadly

they wouldn't have so much of the citizenry stuck in the prisons.

[chookie]

2. Wasn't there already a replacement in the works?

One of the major new "reconstruction" efforts planned ages ago was a nice new -- dare I say "spanking" new? -- prison for Iraqis to be incarcerated in for opposing the regime that they were supposed to thank us for? It was one of the biggest KBR projects planned.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

9. yeah, i recall bush announcing that it would be demolished

and that a new facility would be built.

[merwin]

3. A crackdown against insurgents bloating the prison system? I thought we

just killed most of them.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. During one of chimp's "flight to mars" moments he claimed he was

going to level that prison and build a new one on the same spot. Naturally, since he wasn't starting a war or something, he was ignored and the whole thing was forgotten.

[VolcanoJen]

5. How convenient.

How fucking convenient.

There are many, many unanswered questions here... is anyone listening?

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Hey, they need to cover up the evidence

literally.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Uh Oh....They're gonna bomb the place into dust.

....Afraid the place will become a shrine of Western occupation.

[donsu]

8. the article says they are moving some torture jails to within military

camps in Iraq.

need to hide the torture cells from the public.

nasty, dirty men in the white house need to be in prison.