11 Year Old Was Held Prisoner at Abu Ghraib
Former Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told investigators that one of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was 11 years old.
Karpinski, who was in charge of Abu Ghraib from July to November 2003, said she often visited the prison's youngest inmates. One boy "looked like he was 8-years-old," Karpinski said.
"He told me he was almost 12," Karpinski said. "He told me his brother was there with him, but he really wanted to see his mother, could he please call his mother. He was crying."
[link via Suburban Guerilla.]
The transcript of the interview was among the documents released yesterday pursuant to the FOIA request by the ACLU. While the Pentagon says no juveniles were abused, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary, including:
The documents include statements from six witnesses who said three interrogators and a civilian interpreter at Abu Ghraib got drunk one night and took a 17-year-old female prisoner from her cell. The four men forced the girl to expose her breasts and kissed her, the reports said. The witnesses — whose names were blacked out of the documents given to the ACLU — said those responsible were not punished.
.... Another soldier said in January 2004 that troops poured water and smeared mud on the detained 17-year-old son of an Iraqi general and "broke" the general by letting him watch his son shiver in the cold.
You can read the latest documents of abuse on the ACLU's website here.
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