Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Re-education Camps, American Style

The Washington Post reports that the US has set up a "House of Wisdom" at Camp Victory for insurgent Iraqis who have been detained for more than a year. The indoctrination program is intended to "wage war on the battlefield of the mind" and according to the Marine general in charge, "bend them back to our will". The re-education is conducted by moderate Muslim clerics. The US has released about 2000 detainees who have passed psychological scrutiny, including polygraph tests, and are not considered to pose a threat to US troops. The number of detainees in Iraq has swelled from 10,000 last year to more than 25,000 now.