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America as jailer: we could be doing a better job, particularly in Iraq.(AT WAR)
AMERICA lacks a consistent policy regarding battlefield detainees. In Guantanamo Bay, constant outside criticism has sprung relatively few prisoners from captivity. Yet in Iraq, thousands of prisoners are periodically set free in sweeping conciliatory gestures. Condoleezza Rice told a European audience in March that the U.S. has "no desire to be the world's jailer." And indeed, while the administration has not quite given up its firm stance in the War on Terror, it has been years since a new prisoner was sent to Gitmo.
What are we to make of this? In game theory, the "Prisoner's Dilemma" refers to the rational incentives for two accused criminals to implicate ...
- IRAN-IRAQ PRISONER TRADE STARTS; FEWER THAN AGREED ARE MOVED
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press November 25, 1988 700+ words
...procedures." Iraq, which received the first prisoners, accused Iran...each departing prisoner was given gifts...book. Iran and Iraq began a cease...war, and this prisoner exchange -- the...000. Iraqi prisoners arriving at Saddam...
- 27 tied to Iraq prisoner abuses; Leadership failures cited.(PAGE ONE)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 26, 2004 700+ words
...intelligence activities at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison...civilians abused Iraqi prisoners due to criminal activity...also says that most prisoner abuse was the result...place apart from prisoners who were being interrogated...S. military in Iraq, a unit known as...
- Area soldiers on duty at Iraq prisoner-of-war facility.
- Newspaper article from: Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN) September 23, 2007 700+ words
...Writer At a vast prisoner-of-war camp...detainees in southern Iraq, hundreds of...because most of the prisoners are fasting and...the number of prisoners has swelled and...troop numbers in Iraq have increased...National Forces Iraq. The prison...left four Iraqi prisoners dead ...
- Eight British soldiers suspected of abuse; But government claims proof that...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 11, 2004 700+ words
...not been deployed in Iraq at the relevant time...rifle into the hooded prisoner's private parts. The...veracity, other charges of prisoner abuse remain. A campaigning...activities in southern Iraq. Amnesty International...training for handling prisoners and dealing with unrest...
- A vote on torture.(Iraq Prisoner Abuse Scandal, 2004)(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) November 2, 2005 700+ words
...American handling of prisoners in Iraq and in the wider war...shameful mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. And though...abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq, this nation needed...McCain, R-Ariz., a prisoner of war for 5{ years...
- Bush to Speak on Arab TV to Lessen Backlash over Iraq Prisoner Abuse.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 5, 2004 700+ words
...the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military...the Arab world that Iraq's American occupiers...S. soldiers in Iraq, along with an estimated...the abuse of Iraqi prisoners," said Condoleezza...sorrier that some Iraqi prisoners had to suffer from...irreversibly" in Iraq. Compounding ...
- Iraq Prisoner Abuse
- Picture from: AP Images Khalid Mohammed July 17, 2009 700+ words
...28, 2007 file photo, prisoners look out of their pretrial...Green Zone" in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi officials outraged by the abuse of prisoners at the U.S.-run Abu...torture and mistreatment inside Iraq's own lockups. (AP Photo...
- FEATURE/Iraq Prisoner Abuse Images May Cause ``Exposure Trauma'' in Children,...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 11, 2004 700+ words
...repeatedly exposed to graphic images of Iraq prisoner abuse. Repeated exposure could create...how much a child knows about the Iraq Prison Scandal and their feelings...the "who, what, where" of the Iraq tragedy -- children who do not know...
