{"id":883,"date":"2005-05-11T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=883"},"modified":"2005-05-11T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T16:39:11","slug":"us-to-expand-prison-facilities-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Expand Prison Facilities in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/05\/09\/AR2005050901072.html\">BAGHDAD, May 9<\/a> &#8212; The number of prisoners held in U.S. military detention centers in Iraq has risen without interruption since autumn, filling the centers to capacity and prompting commanders to embark on an unanticipated prison expansion plan.<\/p>\n<p>As U.S. and Iraqi forces battle an entrenched insurgency, the detainee population surpassed 11,350 last week, a nearly 20 percent jump since Iraq&#8217;s Jan. 30 elections. U.S. prisons now contain more than twice the number of people they did in early October, when aggressive raids began in a stepped-up effort to crush the insurgency before January&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating continued growth in the detainee population, U.S. commanders have decided to expand three existing facilities and open a fourth, at a total cost of about $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After briefing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld last month on the new construction plans, Brandenburg received word that the Pentagon had approved $12 million to finish the Camp Bucca expansion and $30 million to enlarge Camp Cropper. Another $7.5 million had been authorized earlier to build Fort Suse. The additional capacity at Abu Ghraib will cost less than $1 million, Brandenburg said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if George really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/_\/id\/7287564?pageid=rs.Home&#038;pageregion=single7&#038;rnd=1115695923154&#038;has-player=true&#038;version=6.0.12.1040\">said<\/a>, &#8220;Our policy is to make Iraq a colony. We won&#8217;t let go,&#8221; but actions do speak louder than words.  Are champagne corks popping in <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.myway.com\/\/article\/20050510\/2005-05-10T185325Z_01_N1057215_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-IRAQ-HALLIBURTON-DC.html\">Halliburton<\/a> offices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, May 9 &#8212; The number of prisoners held in U.S. military detention centers in Iraq has risen without interruption since autumn, filling the centers to capacity and prompting commanders to embark on an unanticipated prison expansion plan. As U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=883\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}