Military insists ’segregation boxes’ for Iraqi prisoners are ‘humane’

David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Friday, Aug 8, 2008

CNN’s Barbara Starr, in a Thursday report, examined what the US military is calling ’segregation boxes’: small, wooden crates being used in Iraq to hold prisoners, which the US military insists are ‘humane.’

Measuring 3 feet square and about 6 feet tall, the military claims that prisoners isolated in the chambers are checked frequently, but the practice is raising concern among human rights advocates.

“There is concern that they could be used in places where detainees are enclosed in extremely hot conditions,” said Jennifer Daskal of Human Rights Watch.

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“Typically, prisoners are isolated for no more than 12 hours,” said Starr.

“Someone in a segregation box is actually observed more than those anywhere else,” Maj. Neil Fischer with the United States Marine Corps told CNN.

“Since the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the US has improved conditions for the 20,000 detainees it holds,” said Starr. “The US hopes to continue releasing prisoners. Recently, some 20 foreign fighters were sent back to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and thousands of Iraqis have been set free.”

“We are able to capture threats to the Iraqi government and the population, detain them, rehabilitate them, and 99 times out of 100, release them,” said Geoff Morrell, a Pentagon spokesman.

And while the military insists the prisoners held in ’segregation boxes’ are given food, water and access to a toilet, “human rights advocates warn that as long as the US military puts people in these conditions, the day may come when a captured US military member is held in a wooden crate somewhere in the world,” said Starr.

This video is from CNN.com, broadcast August 7, 2008.

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3 Responses to “Military insists ’segregation boxes’ for Iraqi prisoners are ‘humane’”

1. redoctoberbaby Says:
   August 8th, 2008 at 10:31 am

   When U.S. armed forces jump bad on Iran, they are going to put in wooden boxes too.

2. Quantum Disruptor Says:
   August 8th, 2008 at 10:43 am

   How much more longer will it take before the Christian/Zionist groups can piss-off the Muslim world to the point where they finally break, then hand the US what it has been trying to get all along? All Muslims know of all the torture and mass murder and past starvation of families and that 911 has become well known around the globeas nothing but an inside job sold to the gullible American public.

   Muslims are going to be the hardest religious people to bow to lucifers NWO (America’s Christian church has already sold it’s collective soul to satans own). They have to keep holding the fire on the Muslim people to the point where they will push back. Then the Neonaziconservatives can scream just how unstable all Muslims are and bomb none-American worshippers into oblivion.

   But since America’s own leaders laugh about the murdering of hundreds of thousands of children by mass starvation, such as Miss Albright has done. So is it any wonder it’s these kinds of people who wouldn’t think twice of killing anybodies kids, [even America's own], and are hooked-in with the most powerful and sadistic people the world will ever see since lucifers fall.

3. asdf Says:
   August 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

   Pretty soon it will be Americans in the boxes, just like the NKVD in the Soviet Gulags.