Abu Gharib back in the news!! US detaining children....

She said the military began holding children and women at Abu Ghraib from mid-2003. She did not say what the youngsters had been locked up for.

Abu Ghraib prison dates from the Saddam Hussein era
In her interview with Maj Gen George Fay, she also said intelligence officers had worked out an agreement to hold detainees without keeping records.

The Pentagon has acknowledged holding so-called "ghost detainees" on the basis that they were enemy combatants and therefore not entitled to prisoner of war protections.

Brig Gen Karpinski said US commanders were reluctant to release detainees, an attitude she called "releasophobia".

In her interview, she said Maj Gen Walter Wodjakowski, then the second most senior army general in Iraq, told her in the summer of 2003 not to release more prisoners, even if they were innocent.

Can someone remind me just why the US invaded the country again?

Mr Stillwater wrote:

Can someone remind me just why the US invaded the country again?

To look for WMD. I can also remind you that deplorable incidents of this type probably occurred in every single large war in history, but usually were not prosecuted. I can also remind you that the incidents here reported are certainly the acts of bad soldiers and not authorized or countenanced by the president. I can also remind you that as bad as these abuses are, they do not begin to compare to the enemy's practices, e.g. sawing civilians' heads off as they scream for their lives.