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| U.S. military trains Iraqi prison guards |
| By svherald.com/ |
| Published: 09/21/2009 |
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CAMP CROPPER, Iraq — (AP) As the U.S. military prepares to hand over the remnants of its detention system to the Iraqi government next year, it is training Iraqi wardens and guards to ensure that changes it made after the Abu Ghraib scandal remain in place. The military plans to teach Iraqi officers how to use non-lethal weapons like tasers, as well as how to handle riots at mock detention facilities and run vocational programs for inmates at a training academy just west of Baghdad that has been under construction since May. The commander in charge of America’s detention facilities in Iraq has spent the five years since the abuses at Abu Ghraib trying to change the doctrine guiding U.S. detainee operations. He gave detainees better access to medical care, set up visitation centers and work programs and brought in approved clerics to lead religious discussions. The military also hired teachers, offering illiterate detainees the chance to learn to read so they would not “have to take a radical imam’s word for what the Quran says,” said Brig. Gen. David Quantock, commander of detainee operations. Now, the military is training wardens, midlevel supervisors and corrections officers in hopes they will keep those programs running at the two detention facilities near Baghdad that the U.S. will hand over to Iraqi control next year: Camp Cropper and Camp Taji. Quantock said the transfer of the facilities could be delayed if Iraqi authorities are not ready. “My red line is I do not want to be held responsible for turning over a facility that falls below humane conditions two months after we leave it,” he said. “When we leave this behind, it will be the Iraqis running the system and we want to set them up for success.” Read More. |
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