From the BBC
Children as young as 11 years old were held at Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison at the centre of the US prisoner abuse scandal, official documents reveal.
Brig Gen Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of the jail, gave details of young people and women held there.
Her assertion was among documents obtained via legal action by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The Pentagon has admitted juveniles were among the detainees, but said no child was subject to any abuse.
Do you know any 11 or 12-year olds? Do you have one of your own? How would you feel about sending them to the prison in your state?
Brig Gen Karpinski, who was in charge at Abu Ghraib from July to November 2003, said she often visited the prison's youngest inmates.
She said in her interview that she thought one boy "looked like he was eight years old".
"He told me he was almost 12," she said. "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."
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.
We don't even know who are enemies are anymore. I wholly dislike the analogies to Viet Nam, however many of the same features of that (or any) guerilla war are similar in Iraq. The mentality is that everyone is an enemy. That's why we shoot at speeding cars, kill people standing to close to the Humvee or just bomb entire cities.
But according to some, it's all in a day's work:
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.
"I don't care if we're holding 15,000 innocent civilians," she said Maj Gen Wodjakowski told her. "We're winning the war."
Um, Major? Even the Pentagon gave up that ghost.
UPDATE: A lot of commenters has criticized the American media for not getting this one out, but they have! Under the "Law Center" category on CNN (the equivalent of page D-35 in the daily paper). Those dicks.