According to the German television chanel ARD, the US and their allies have arrested and tortured Iraqi children at Abu Grahib. And the Red Cross have concluded that more than 100 children are being held in prisons in Iraq and have suffered abuse from U.S. and coalition soldiers.
Spokesman Florian Wetphal from the International Red Cross confermed yesterday that the organization found 107 children being held captive in prisons controlled by coalition forces between January and February this year.
Samuel Provance, a staff sergeant stationed in the now infamous Abu Ghraib prison said that interrogating officers had pressured a 15 or 16 year old girl. Military police had only intervened when the girl was already half undressed. On another occasion, a 16 year old was soaked with water, driven through the cold, and then smeared with mud. (Der Spiegel, translated to English here)
And these are the ones that are defending our freedom... Land of the free indeed.
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