Iraqi kids imprisoned, U.S. official says

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http://story.malaysiasun.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/eabd1fa2f2c21923/

The U.S.-led coalition is ignoring innocent children being held and sometimes abused in Iraqi juvenile prisons, a State Department official says.

These are not hardened criminals or terrorists, wrote Marshall Adame, an official with the National Coordination Team based out of Camp Victory in Iraq, in a personal detailed report he published on an Internet Web log.

He added there were reports of physical and other abuse in the prison, but the U.S.-led coalition considered the issue not our urgent business.

Adame, a retired U.S. Marine who has two sons who served in Iraq, told The Washington Times he published his report, titled Six Blunders we made in Iraq we can still fix, because he wanted it to be part of the public record. snip

[soothsayer]

1. Well, good for that patriotic Marine, who still understands right

and wrong (not having it blurred by the "they killed my buddy!" syndrome)