Excerpt from Torture Central:
05/23/2006
Iraq Update—Week 39
...I don’t have much confidence that all of the detainees designated as insurgents/terrorists by the U.S. Army/Marines are indeed so...We have two 12-year-old children who were arrested by Marines and have been in Abu [Ghraib] over 9 months. Their arrest record (written by the arresting Marines) simply reads “Reason for Arrest: Because we were bored.”
...Periodically, higher echelons would pick 50 or so Sunni kids, decide that they had all turned 18, and send them to one of the adult levels. Some of them look like they were still middle-schoolers; and I’m sure that most of them ended up being abused by the adults. Rape was not uncommon among the detainees in the Sunni levels; MI had been able to determine that the price for one of the newly transferred kids was 22 cigarettes...