At Abu Ghraib, U.S. has lost track of dozens of detainees

[leftchick]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/8904054.htm?1c

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Mohamed Khaled Saleem's parents thought their 15-year-old son's disappearance six months ago was unique until their search led them this month to Abu Ghraib, the vast American-run prison where graphic photos of soldiers abusing Iraqi inmates were taken.

American administrators have lost track of dozens of detainees inside Abu Ghraib in the last year, according to human-rights workers, former inmates, a former prison investigator, attorneys, detainees' families, and prisoner-rights groups. With no clearinghouse for missing-person reports and technical errors in the intake process, families such as Saleem's can do little but wait outside the tall prison gates in hopes that someone recognizes the missing men pictured on their photocopied flyers.

"What else can they do?" asked Saad Abdulhadi al Ubaidy of the Iraqi Political Prisoners League, which has compiled hundreds of names of the missing. "They can hang around a human-rights office until they get kicked out. They can wait outside the prison or the coalition offices. But they'll still go home with no answers."

There's no way to tell how many people have gone missing after being arrested by U.S. forces, said a coalition human-rights official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

[crossroads]

1. OMG! On ice?

Can't help it - that was my first thought...
:shrug:

[Mnemosyne]

2. so sorry

next in line for disappearances: dissenters in the US

[Rex]

3. Why won't someone ask Dubya pointblank what he is doing about

the horrors in Abu Ghraib? He is the C&C and those were his soldiers who committed war crimes. Shithead wanted to be President so bad that he usurped the Rule of Law, now he needs to deal with the consequences!

[leftchick]

8. just saw his ugly puss on cbs answering that question....

typical non-answer from the dimbulb*..."our soldiers were told not to commit war crimes against detainees"... blah blah blah :puke:

[w13rd0]

4. "No more do Iraqis live in fear...

...of Saddams rape rooms and torture chambers, no longer will they be buried in Saddams mass graves."

Yeah, now they are all Bush.

[Walt Starr]

5. I wonder if somebody else will invade

and find the mass grave WE left.

[stickdog]

6. You mean like Nick Berg? (nt)

[Solly Mack]

7. Have they looked into the foundations of the new bases going up?

Maybe a mass grave attributed to Saddam but containing "curiously" fresh corpses?

Have they checked Halliburton containers leaving the country? Marked refuse but actually carrying the pesky unexplained dead...

I'm sorry..am I being morbid?

I can't imagine why.....

[leftchick]

9. not morbid at all, just being realistic...

I keep thinking of those badass Israeli-like bulldozers the US has over there. Hmmm, now they could bury lots of bodies....

[tlcandie]

10. I read that in Gulf War I that is EXACTLY what they did....

Mow Iraqis over with bulldozers while they were in their trenches!

[struggle4progress]

11. I guess Iraq will have its own "Mothers of the Disappeared" ...

thanks to the Bushista thugs.

[VolcanoJen]

12. Can you even begin to imagine? If this were a member of your family??

It breaks my heart... the crowds outside of Abu Ghraib, clutching photographs, begging for info from unsympathtic soldiers who certainly don't speak their language, are not partial to their cause, and who are pissed off for having to be there in the first place?

:-(

[CharlesGroce]

13. lost track huh...

somehow I doubt they've escaped...I guess it's called 'losing track of someone' when you murder them nowadays.

[RedSock]

14. missing men pictured on their photocopied flyers

just like thousands of people right after 9/11, wandering around lower manhattan, HOPING & PRAYING that their missing loves ones would be found safe ...

(I wished i believed in hell so i could imagine this cabal burning forever, but alas .....)