Arrest and abuse of Iraqi children
revealed
BERLIN,—More than 100 children being held in prisons
in Iraq were arrested and suffered abuse from U.S.
and coalition soldiers, according to the Red Cross,
reports Der Spiegel Online.
ANSA
reports that the online version of the weekly, which
in turn cites the program Report, from the SWR
network, affirms that the abusive episodes also took
place in Abu Ghraib, the Baghdad prison where other
cases of torture were reported.
“Between January and May of this year, we registered
107 children in total during 19 visits to six
different prisons,” stated Florian Westphal,
International Red Cross spokesman, in an interview
by SWR in Geneva.
These
were prisons under the control of the occupation
forces, Westphal emphasized, adding that the number
of detained children could be even higher.
IRAQI SOLDIER FIRES IN DEFENSE OF HIS PEOPLE
AN Iraqi soldier who was
participating with a unit of U.S. troops in a search
operation in northern Iraq executed four U.S.
Marines for having offended his countrymen, ANSA
reported.
The
shooting occurred in the community of Al-Buhishma,
near the city of Tikrit.
Meanwhile, 15 people died during a U.S. bombing raid
on the city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of
Baghdad, according to Al Arabiya television.
The TV
station, quoting its correspondent in Fallujah,
indicated that a house in the Al Shuhada
neighborhood was the target of the attack, EFE
reported.
In
another development, a strong explosion took place
along a section of an oil pipeline in the southern
city of Kerbala, 24 hours after the resistance blew
up a similar facility in the outskirts of Fallujah
and another one in Basora, on Saturday.
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