USA Today leads with word today that "Only one in five detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq are members of the main extremist groups fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces, while many of the rest can be reintegrated back into society, according to U.S. military statistics and interviews."
Marine Maj. Gen. Docuglas Stone is quoted as saying, "Our goal, really, is to release all of those who are no longer an imperative security risk."
I hope this is true, considering that many of these detainees have been held for five or six years without due process. And we have good reason to believe that many are actually innocent of any ties to terrorism and were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, or were arrested due to an unfortunate language misinterpretation, or were arbitrarily sold to U.S. troops by bounty hunters.
Frankly, I'm surprised that the current Powers That Be would be willing to admit that most of the detainees pose no threat, since they've been telling us all along that they are the "worst of the worst".
We shall see.
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