Chronological age has nothing to do with intellect and no amount of PC spin or they are just kids rhetoric will change the fact that none of them are being held for skipping school.
By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN, 20 May 2008, (AP) The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles in detention centers in Iraq, and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
-The same UN which allows the murder of non muslim children globally without batting an eye.
A total of 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been detained, almost all in Iraq, for periods up to a year or more in President Bush’s anti-terrorism campaign since 2002, the United States reported last week to the U.N.’s Committee on the Rights of the Child.
-Notice the US makes no attempt to hide the numbers.
Civil liberties groups such as the International Justice Network and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) denounced the detentions as abhorrent, and a violation of U.S. treaty obligations.
-The same ACLU that rarely speaks out for muslim womens rights, against islamic honor killings, or slavery as practiced in muslim lands-that ACLU?
In the periodic report to the United Nations on U.S. compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United States confirmed that “as of April 2008, the United States held about 500 juveniles in Iraq.”
-Totally despicable after this many years we should have ten times that number. We should have also arrested their recruiters, trainers and facilitators. None of these little darlings just woke up one day and decided to go jihad. Their parents should also beheld as responsible.
“The juveniles that the United States has detained have been captured engaging in anti-coalition activity, such as planting Improvised Explosive Devices, operating as lookouts for insurgents, or actively engaged in fighting against U.S. and Coalition forces,” the U.S. report said.
-So arresting them was actually kind, they should be dead.
The majority are believed to be 16 or 17 years old. In the United States a 17-year-old can enlist in the U.S. army, with parental consent.
-Many Islamic parents give consent to go jihad at far younger ages.
The report said that of the total of 2,500 juveniles jailed since 2002, all but 100 had been picked up in Iraq. Of the remainder, most were swept up in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military says it has held eight juveniles, ages 13-17, at Guantanamo since the detention center opened in 2002.
-Bet they are real popular with the afghans and chechens.
“It remains uncertain the exact age of these individuals, as most of them did not know their date of birth or even the year they were born,” the report says. But U.S. military doctors who evaluated them believed that three were under age 16.
-And already married to a bearded follower of old mohammed, allahu ackberries
Six were released and two are now adults facing war-crimes charges.
Canadian Omar Khadr, now 21, was captured in July 2002 and is charged with murder for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. Special Forces soldier. Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan who the military says is about 23, faces charges of attempted murder for a 2002 grenade attack that wounded two U.S. soldiers.
-I am not feeling sorry for them even if they are now the prison bitches. (more…)
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