Families live in fear of midnight call by US patrols

[donsu]

Concentration Camps in Baghdad

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MCG307A.html

NEVER again did families in Baghdad imagine that they need fear the midnight knock at the door. But in recent weeks there have been increasing reports of Iraqi men, women and even children being dragged from their homes at night by American patrols, or snatched off the streets and taken, hooded and manacled, to prison camps around the capital.

Children as young as 11 are claimed to be among those locked up for 24 hours a day in rooms with no light, or held in overcrowded tents in temperatures approaching 50C (122F).

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Every day, relatives scuff their way along the dirt track to reach the razor wire barricades surrounding Abu Ghraib, where they plead in vain for information about the whereabouts of the missing.

The response from impassive American sentries is to point to a sign, scrawled in red felt-tip pen on a piece of cardboard hanging on the barbed wire, which says: “No visits are allowed, no information will be given and you must leave.”

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Each morning at the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad there is a silent line of Iraqis queueing to find out where a relative might be. The American authorities have said that they will not inform the Red Cross about detainees until 21 days after they have been arrested. The International Committe of the Red Cross has been allowed to see some of the prisoners, but says that it cannot even begin to guess at the numbers detained.
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I keep flashing back to WWII and how the people in europe froze in fear when they could hear the sound of the troops BOOTS pounding up the street; into the houses; up the stairs, etc.

and our troops are doing this in our name.

[noonwitch]

1. silly me, I thought we were there to liberate the people from this

type of thing. It really bothers me that my tax dollars are being used in such a way.