The Future

New allegations of prisoner abuse by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have been revealed in documents released by the US Army. Read more

And in another report, official documents have revealed that children as young as 11 were (and possible still are) being held at Abu Ghraib.

In one case, witness statements among the released documents allege that four drunken Americans took a 17-year-old female prisoner from her cell and forced her to expose her breasts and kissed her.

In another documented incident, troops are alleged to have smeared mud on the detained 17-year-old son of an Iraqi general and forced his father to watch him shiver in the cold.

And another one

"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."

Read the full story from BBC

This reminds me of the Baghdad Burning blog.

'The weapons never existed. It's like having a loved one sentenced to death for a crime they didn't commit- having your country burned and bombed beyond recognition, almost. Then, after two years of grieving for the lost people, and mourning the lost sovereignty, we're told we were innocent of harboring those weapons. We were never a threat to America...



Congratulations Bush- we are a threat now. '



Bush's actions now - will result in countless more Osama Bin Laden's who are growing up in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in Palestine watching America torture their dads, rape their sisters, destroy their homes, and murder their families. Imagine the hatred towards America and Israel that they are growing up with.




Are they justified in hating America to the extent that they'll risk their lives to inflict as much pain as possible on their 'enemy'?