torture camps

As Iraqi defiance increased in early 2004 a military base in Baghdad was transformed from a military base to a top-secret detention center. There American soldiers would torture sometimes innocent Iraqis. According to Defense Department personnel their intention was to extract information to help hunt down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most-wanted terrorist. Soldiers posted placards at the detention area that advised, "NO BLOOD, NO FOUL." The slogan reflected an adage adopted by Task Force 6-26: "If you don't make them bleed, they can't prosecute for it." Because of racial profiling and other ovbious reasons sometimes innocent Iraqis are detained in these detention centers.

This Iraqi detenion center is similar to the Japanese American Internment camps that were located in the United States during World War II. Approximately 112,000 to 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West coast of the United States were forced into Japanese Internment camps. Sixty-two percent of these people were United States citizens. These camps were in remote portions of the nation's interior. The conditions these people were forced to live in were horrible and they were considered torturous by many. The people that were forced to live in these camps were placed there based on race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership. Some of the reasons that some possibly innocent Iraqi prisoners are being detained and tortured in Iraqi detention centers.