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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE: 800th Military Police Brigade (US) Creating Massive New POW Facility in Iraq--Intelligence Appears Lacking But This Could Be Sensational Opportunity 
OSS Comment: The U.S. Marine Corps had some clear lessons learned in the aftermath of the Gulf War--among them, was the importance of fully integrating inteligence into the design and management of prisoner of war facilities, and the need to plan the table of organization and equipment to provide for isolation cells, segregated cooking, and--this is the important part--intelligence-led prisoner management to include full-up secure communications, maximized skilled (multinational?) interrogator-translators, and an embedded analysis center. The 800th Military Police Brigade appears to be doing a superb job in getting ready for up to 100,000 Iraqi prisoners, but their approach is administrative rather than intelligence-driven. There is still time to surge the intelligence side up. |
| EXTRACT: UMM QASR, Iraq — The U.S. military is ready to open a permanent prisoner of war detainment facility that can hold 16,000 people, but could be expanded to handle nearly 100,000 prisoners, Army officials say. The prisoners, all men, will soon be transferred to the U.S. camp from Camp Freddy, the adjacent site used by British forces to hold captives, said Army Capt. Lisa Weidenbush, operations officer for the 800th Military Police Brigade. The unit from Uniondale, N.Y., will run the facility. American forces are building two compounds, each of which can hold 8,000 prisoners, she said, and the military is prepared to build up to 12 compounds. ... Civil affairs, military police and military intelligence soldiers sorted through information and tried to help the family members, Shere said. He said in most cases military officials do not release names of those in the compound and, instead, work through the Red Cross, which visits the camp several times a week. Those names could be useful to terrorists, he said. Weidenbush said prisoners receive two hot meals and a box lunch every day. The prisoners are allowed religious services, and the direction of Mecca, necessary for Muslim prayer, is indicated in the camp, she said. "Many of these people are probably better treated than if they were still in the army," Weidenbush said. |
| SOURCE: New POW facility in Iraq can hold 16,000 prisoners By David Josar, Stars and Stripes European edition, Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
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