Detainees don't want to leave Gitmo University extension program!

This is absolutely precious! Many detainees that we keep oversees don't want to leave detention! They want to stay and finish their education. I kid you not! Betsy Newmark points out this irony over at Google: Iraqi detainees refusing to go home. From the story:

An increasing number of Iraqi detainees are refusing to leave detention centres despite being eligible for release because they want to complete studies begun behind bars, a US general said on Sunday."

In the last three or four months we have begun seeing detainees asking to stay in detention, usually to complete their studies," Major General Douglas Stone told a news conference in Baghdad.

The US military offers a wide range of educational programmes to the 23,000 or so detainees -- adults and juveniles -- being held at its two detention facilities, Camp Cropper near Baghdad's international airport and Camp Bucca near the southern port city of Basra.

Some parents of juvenile detainees, too, have asked that their children remain behind bars so they can continue their schooling, said Stone, the commanding general for US detainee operations in Iraq.

The US military, he added, was not encouraging the trend.

At what point will these detainees want to come over here and teach elementary education in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago?