As a follow on to Michael's report below, the Washington Post says the new Pentagon report also shows teens as young as 15 were used as part of some sadistic game by MPs at Abu Ghraib. The report goes on to note that:
"...military intelligence soldiers kept multiple detainees off the record books and hid them from international humanitarian organizations. The report also mentions substantiated claims that at least one male detainee was sodomized by one of his captors at Abu Ghraib..."And, while the report still says these were the actions of just a few errant people, the number of errant people just MORE THAN DOUBLED:
"It will expand the circle of soldiers considered responsible for abuse beyond the seven military police soldiers already facing charges, officials said, to include more than a dozen others"The article goes on to note that only 300 pages of the 9,000 page report will be released. That is ridiculous. The entire report should be released or no one will, or should, trust this administration's pitiful accounting.
Finally, war crimes or not? How is rape not a war crime? Has anyone read anything about whether the international community is taking any action on the Abu Ghraib abuses? What's the process for someone to take up the issue of war crimes?
