Friday, 16 July 2004
The Worst Is the Soundtrack of the Boys Shrieking
About a week ago, Tom Tomorrow did a report on (hold your breath) children at Abu Ghraib. According to a German TV news program, the International Red Cross found at least 107 children in coaliton-administered detention centers in Iraq.
When I first read it, I was skeptical, because I hadn't heard of it anywhere else. However, today I came across an article describing Norway's reaction to the child abuse:
As a reaction to the alleged torture of children, Norwegian authorities state they will address the US both politically and diplomatically and clearly state that it is not tolerated.
"Such assaults are unacceptable," said Odd Jostein Sæter, parliamentary secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, to the Norwegian television channel NRK. "It is against international laws and it is also unacceptable from a moral point of view. This is why we react strongly, as we already have reacted to the abuse which is documented at the prisons in Iraq."
He said that Norwegian authorities will use its first possible opportunity to respond to the Americans actions both politically and diplomatically. He stressed that jailing and assaulting children will not be tolerated.
This is beyond bad. Not only are we about to lose yet another ally over this, but just try and imagine what the reaction is going to be around the world when the news breaks big.
And it will break BIG.
Sy Hersh (the guy who reported the original Abu Ghraib story the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, among many others) is saying things are far worse than anything we've seen so far:
There is a video of Hersh addressing the ACLU here. He begins at about 1hr 8min in, but Ed Cone provides us with a short synopsis:
"The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher." ...
Words fail me. I really don't know what else to say. Will frat hazing be the explanation for this as well?
Posted by flow Frazao on July 16, 2004 at 03:45 PM in Iraq | Permalink
WTF? holy shit, I just pray that nothing like that has actually happened. oh lord...what is the world coming to.
Posted by: apu | Jul 16, 2004 5:05:39 PM
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