From a U.S. military wire service:
More than [Iraqi] 7,000 detainees are enrolled in basic education courses. Roughly 1,000 others are participating in mixed Sunni and Shiite religious discussions led by imams hired by coalition forces, a course that will become mandatory for detainees who have been deemed ready for release.
"They are genuinely engaged in a conversation -- a Socratic conversation -- without our presence in there, about the Quran," [Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone] said of the religious course. "They come out understanding the difference between what the extremists have said, or what the extremists have made them memorize, vs. what's actually in the Quran."
Further thoughts, and more posting, when I have more time...
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