CNN International cameras given exclusive access to the largest US detention facility in Iraq - Camp Bucca

CNN International cameras given exclusive access to the largest US detention facility in Iraq - Camp Bucca  
 
 
CNN International’s Nic Robertson is given exclusive access to film inside Camp Bucca in Iraq in a two-part exclusive showing today on CNN International at 9pm local time.
 
Camp Bucca is the largest American detention facility in Iraq, with nearly 20,000 detainees; two thousand of whom are members of Al-Qaeda.  A year ago, Major General Douglas Stone, who is in charge of Camp Bucca asked General Petraeus to allow the use of lethal force when fires set by detainees consumed the camp.  Riots, killings and detainee-on-detainee torture were the hallmarks of the notorious facility which produced more hardcore extremists than it brought in.
 
Major General Stone has introduced a seemingly radical approach so that once the detainees are released back into their communities, they won’t spread extremism, hate and more violence.  Extremist religious ideology is combated in the camp by the introduction of moderate clerics ‘re-educating’ detainees in mainstream Islam - under an American umbrella.  Major General Stone’s aim is to produce detainees for release who will become ‘moderate missiles’ dispatched back into communities.
 
At Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper, CNN International goes behind the scenes to look at how the detainees are treated – an approach that’s polar opposite to the grim images broadcast to the world from Abu Ghreib.  Nic Robertson watches an interrogation where interrogators are not allowed to touch the detainees, and cannot force them to talk.
 
The new approach to detainee operations seems to be succeeding with the US getting far more actionable intelligence than before, but what will happen when the Iraqis take over the detention facilities?  Will they understand this new approach?  Or will methods used by the Ministry Of Intelligence’s most notorious officers prevail, and will sectarianism and years of ethnic hate be checked at the gate?