Children held at Camp Xray, US admits



The US military has revealed it is holding juveniles at its high-security prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, known as Camp Xray.

The commander of the joint task force at Guantanamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, says more than one child under the age of 16 is at the detention centre.

However, Maj Gen Miller has revealed little more about their welfare.

Maj Gen Miller says the US is holding "juvenile enemy combatants" at the centre, confirming rumours of children being held.

He has refused to reveal how many there are, their exact ages or their countries of origin.

He says they are being well cared for and are kept in facilities separate to adult prisoners.

The children are still being interrogated and will continue to be held at Guantanamo.

About 660 prisoners are in the camp.

They have not been tried or convicted of any offence but are being held as part of what the US calls its war on terror.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s836988.htm

...to know they are being held in seperate Tiger Cages?

I think that those juveniles should be put in front of a firing squad. What is Bush waiting for?

If you have something to say, fake guy, say it under your own name.

Coward.

I did not post the above comment.

So what? This couldn't possibly be less important.

...just kill 'em and be done with it.

I don't know about killing them, but since everyone is sooooo concerned about these "poor, innocent kids" maybe they should just be tossed over the fence into the bastion of human rights that is Cuba. Let them live free and grow strong in a utopian socialist workers paradise.

...too soft. Kill those Muslim bastards!

...great humanitarian that you are you believe that Tiger

Cages are preferable to Castro's "Paradise". As much as I despise Fidel I think it would be more humane to

toss them into "the Paradise".

My humanitarian concerns do not extend to Islamic teenagers bent on destroying all "infidels".

I would push the button to send in the real tigers to them while eating dinner, concerning myself only with what sort of coffee I should order once done.

You were good for shark chum, fresca.

You've given me a fine idea. Why not feed these teenage subhumans to the lions and tigers in the Baghdad zoo.

Now that's a win-win solution.

Thank you. Thank you.

...reveals himself as a barbarian, Islamophobic, Racist, Pig.

Outside of that he merely a monster.

fresca desperately wants to be a male and brutality

equates with manhood. A confused and bitter creature.

US detains children at Guantanamo Bay

Staff and agencies

Wednesday April 23, 2003

The US military has admitted that children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being interrogated at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson, a US military spokesman, yesterday said all the teenagers being held were "captured as active combatants against US forces", and described them as "enemy combatants".

The children, some of whom have been held at Guantanamo for over a year, are imprisoned in separate cells from the adult detainees, Lt Col Johnson said. He would say only that the teenagers are "very few, a very small number" and would not say how old the youngest prisoner is.

The US military confirmed their presence yesterday after Australia's ABC television reported that children were being held at Guantanamo, the controversial detention centre where prisoners from the war in Afghanistan have been held by the US, in breach of the Geneva conventions, for over a year.

The news sparked outrage from human rights groups already campaigning against the indefinite detention of the roughly 660 males from 42 countries, held on suspicion of having links to al-Qaida or Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime. They have not been charged or allowed access to lawyers.

"That the US sees nothing wrong with holding children at Guantanamo and interrogating them is a shocking indicator of how cavalier the Bush administration has become about respecting human rights," said an Amnesty International spokesman, Alistair Hodgett.

Human Rights Watch said the US was exacerbating a contentious situation. "[The detention of youths] reflects our broader concerns that the US never properly determined the legal status of those held in the conflict," said James Ross, legal adviser for Human Rights Watch in New York.

Lt Col Johnson said the juveniles were being held because "they have potential to provide important information in the ongoing war on terrorism".

"Their release is contingent on the determination that they are not a threat to the [US] nation and have no further intelligence value."

Lt Col Johnson said officials determined that some detainees were younger than 16 during medical and other screenings after their arrival in Cuba. He added that all the prisoners aged under 16 years were brought to Guantanamo after January 1 2002 - suggesting that some were 15 or younger when they were first imprisoned.

In September 2002, Canadian officials reported that a 15-year-old Canadian had been captured on July 27 after being badly wounded in a firefight in eastern Afghanistan. Canada's prime minister, Jean Chrétien said he was seeking consular access to the boy.

Last week, Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper reported that the youth, now 16, is being held in Guantanamo and that US officials have refused access to Canadian officials.

The newspaper quoted unidentified sources as saying that the youth allegedly threw a grenade that killed Sergeant 1st Class Christopher James Speer, 28, of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Globe and Mail said US officials would want to interrogate the Canadian because his father has been identified as a senior financial leader of al-Qaida.

Lawyers have blamed the indefinite detentions for increasing depression and suicide attempts at the camp, which received the first detainees in January 2001.

According to the US military, there have been 25 suicide attempts by 17 prisoners at Camp X-Ray, with 15 attempts made this year.

Just this Monday the US military announced that one prisoner, who it said was under supervision in the acute care unit of a new mental health ward, made a repeated suicide attempt.

There is no reason to lock up children.

...if you are conscienceless monster who regards

children of your "enemies" as lawful prey to be used

and misused for the benefit of the ruling elites.

After all the Nazi's did not think twice about killing or

torturing the children of identified resistance members.

Why should they Bush Junta be any different from those

that they look up to?

Here's the deal. The American Troups are not holding these kids to kill them, because they are kids. They were taught by some adult to do what they did. They do not deserve to die.

However, true to the spoiled American Princes and Princesses who fancy themselves to be militant and bad, everone of you underachievers are skirting the importance of the issues with profanity and nonsensical ravings and rantings.

Lets face facts. You have nothing of importance to contribute untill you decide to read and learn about the world you are living in. Get over the incredible amounts of self-love you are wallowing in and try to love someone else for a change.

Here's the deal. The American Troups are not holding these kids to kill them, because they are kids. They were taught by some adult to do what they did. They do not deserve to die.

However, true to the spoiled American Princes and Princesses who fancy themselves to be militant and bad, everone of you underachievers are skirting the importance of the issues with profanity and nonsensical ravings and rantings.

Lets face facts. You have nothing of importance to contribute untill you decide to read and learn about the world you are living in. Get over the incredible amounts of self-love you are wallowing in and try to love someone else for a change.

The American Troops aren't kids. The kids are being imprisoned by the soldiers.

Imprisoning children is not the answer, unless one is prepared to hold them their whole lives, or kill them. A much better response would be for the richest nation in the world to ask itself why these children, and their neighbors, hate the US so much. Then maybe Americans would think of something else rather than the next SUV or golf club membership (or the next way to pay landlords and credit card companies in a depressed economy!)

"However, true to the spoiled American Princes and Princesses who fancy themselves to be militant and bad, everone of you underachievers are ..."

Hey, whenever we don't have a valid argument, we can always resort to generalizations. Tell me, Jeannine. Are ALL black people lazy? Are ALL Asians smart?

"...nonsensical ravings and rantings."

"You have nothing of importance to contribute untill you decide to read and learn about the world you are living in."

I suggest that you take your own advice, you hypocrite. Could you be any more oblivious if you tried?

Oh, and your's ARE sensical? Don't make me laugh.

"...try to love someone else for a change."

Oh, you mean the Iraqis that we just finished bombing the hell out of? Please take your head out of your ass.

It is my sincere wish that the government will hang these people.

Either that or recruit the youngest as double agents to infiltrate Islamist organizations and facilitate the killing of such persons.

We support you. We admire your love of killing Muslims. Please go to:

www.freerepublic.com

25 - 30 suicide attempts at Guatanomo. How many of the imprisoned childrens will end up depressed and suicidal?

Gee, more suicidal kids who hate America...

How does this help natl security? Under bush's oil stained fingers (figuratively, of course, since he has never done an honest days work in his life) American democracy has gone to plutocracy and oligarchy and now is clearly becoming an crazycracy.

Put bush in a cage where he belongs and drop him by copter onto the Ross Ice Shelf.

Why does everybody hate America? well because we support Israel. and your jealous. plain and simple you want the SUV's and golf memberships. dont kill the kids but they do deserve to be punished. Anybody who attempts to kill in cold blood should be dealt with accordingly. Why does everybody hate bush so much? because hes such a war monger? well i dont remember all this animocity against Clinton when he went into the Yugoslavia. all you are hypocrites.

hmmm....

the ziggy that posts the audio and other stories on LA IMC -- me! -- is not the ziggy that posted that comment above

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>>I think that those juveniles should be put in front of a firing squad. What is Bush waiting for?
for what crime and with what evidence asshole?