[ejdrapes]

A Red Cross report disclosed Monday said coalition intelligence officers estimated that 70-90 percent of Iraqi detainees were arrested by mistake

Who's estimating this? The Red Cross, the Military, the CIA? 70-90%?? I find that a little hard to believe.

[optimistically_conservative]

"Treatment often included pushing people around, insulting, taking aim with rifles, punching and kicking and striking with rifles."

Sounds like the Elian Gonzalez raid.

[Lijahsbubbe]

The report said "high-value detainees" were singled out for special mistreatment. The report did not specify them, but The Associated Press has learned they included some of the 55 top officials in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime who were named in a deck of cards given to troops.

Who will advocate for these poor souls? Bwahahaha...

[Lijahsbubbe]

strict solitary confinement in small concrete cells devoid of daylight

were progressively given clothing, bedding and other items in exchange for cooperationhooding, humiliation and threats

waking up residents roughly, yelling orders, forcing family members into one room

pushing people around, insulting, taking aim with rifles, punching and kicking and striking with rifles."

were forced to parade around in women's underwear

Oh the atrocities of the US, oh the humanity.......

said the ICRC regretted the publication and said it would have preferred sticking to its policy of confidential discussions

Right.

[pfflier]

Where was this news say..oh about three weeks ago before the pictures What a Red Cross coincidence!!!

[ApplegateRanch]

Among the evidence were burns, bruises and other injuries consistent with the abuse that prisoners alleged, it said.

I have a very large, nasty scar that follows the bottom of my rib cage, from breast bone to center-right side; and a couple of associated puncture scars.

It is consistant with a few joke stories I tell credulous people, who are rude enough to mention it at the pool or health club.

Usually the stories involve machetes, bayonettes, katanas, or whatever else I can dream up on the spot.

Once they swallow it, the embellishment starts to see just how gullible they are.

I finally end by telling them the truth: It is a surgical scar due to the bad luck of getting my gall bladder removed less than 6 months before fiber optics made my operation obsolete.

I doubt these prisoners are any less inventive when it comes to explaining their owies & hurties, recieved before or during capture, to the Red Cross.

[OneTimeLurker]

70-90% of Iraqis should have been locked up in the first place IMO.

Too bad there aren't enough prisons to house the majority of the population. That would have let us go in there, clear out the terrorists, get rid of Saddam, find the WMDs and gain control of the petroleum.

[kissthis]

This whole story flies in the face of a first hand account by an Iraqi doctor in the prison.

For a facinating account of the prison, as well as tons of more from inside Iraq, see the following blog put up by three Iraqi brothers in Bagdad.

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

The prison report is dated Saturday, May 08, 2004....second post down.

[hgro]

The IRC gets all of their info from the prisoners. The jails are always full of innocent inmates.

[anniegetyourgun]

Pierre Kraehenbuehl, Director of Operations for the International Committee of the Red Cross, speaks during a press conference about the ICRC Report on the treatment of detainees in Iraq, at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, May 7, 2004. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini)

Do you suppose Pierre might be French AND German?