Over 350 Detainees Released In Iraq
Baghdad, Oct 17 – More than 350 detainees were released on Wednesday morning from U.S. prisons and detention centers in Iraq after receiving vocational rehabilitation and taking training courses in reading, writing and mathematics, a U.S. army media source said.
“Releasing detainees is a joint project by the Iraqi government and the Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq, under the supervision of the Iraqi judiciary,” the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI), adding that those released are no longer a threat to Iraqi society.
The detainees were released in the presence of Shiite Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi; the head of the Anbar Awakening Council, Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha and two judges from the Supreme Judicial Council, including its spokesman, Abdul Sattar al-Berqadar.
(VOI)
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I saw a news story on this program to rehabilitate prisoners. I believe most of them are children and teenagers. Under international law, the US couldn’t hold them in prison for more than a year, so they figured they might as well try to turn them into productive members of society. I hope this turns out well.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:02 pm