Expanding Prison Camps and Adding Troops
BBC News Aug 18 Rolling in more troops for prison security, taking in more prisoners, building yet another prison camp. As the insurgency continues, there are now nearly 11,000 prisoners in major US-run detention centres – twice as many as last September. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last month he would like to give Iraq’s government full responsibility for detainees as soon as was feasible. But the US has offered no timetable for such a handover. A Pentagon spokesman,…