Reply #12: Children Said Among Abu Ghraib Prisoners [View All]

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050311/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_child_detainees&cid=542&ncid=1473

WASHINGTON - Children held by the U.S. Army at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Abu Ghraib prison included one boy who appeared to be only about 8 years old, the former commander of the prison told investigators, according to a transcript.



"He looked like he was eight years old. He told me he was almost 12," Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski told officials investigating prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. "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."


Karpinski's statement is among hundreds of pages of Army records about Abu Ghraib the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) released Thursday. The ACLU got the documents under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records about abuse of detainees in Iraq.


Karpinski did not say what happened to the boy in her interview with Maj. Gen. George Fay. Military officials have previously acknowledged that some juvenile prisoners had been held at Abu Ghraib, a massive prison built by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government outside Baghdad.

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