On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:15:25 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Jim, wrote:
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/...re2/print.html

Extract

On another subject, Karpinski said she had seen written orders to hold
a prisoner that the CIA had captured without keeping records. The
documents released by the ACLU quote an unnamed Army officer at Abu
Ghraib as saying military intelligence officers and the CIA worked out a
written agreement on how to handle unreported detainees. An Army report
issued last September said investigators could not find any copies of
any such written agreement.

Karpinski said Maj. Gen. Walter Wodjakowski, then the No. 2 Army
general in Iraq, told her in the summer of 2003 not to release more
prisoners, even if they were innocent.

"I don't care if we're holding 15,000 innocent civilians. We're winning
the war," Karpinski said Wodjakowski told her. She said she replied:
"Not inside the wire, you're not, sir."


Parts of Karpinski's transcript indicate that US soldiers were holding
8-9-10 and 11 year old children in that damned prison. One can only
imagine what kinds of abuse the children received.

I would imagine (assuming it's true) that those kids were treated
better than those soldiers were, who were on the receiving end of
bombs that other children deployed.


We'll stop capturing children when the enemy stops using them as pawns
in the battle.

Dave