Seems that a German TV newsmagazine is doing a better job of digging deeper into issues than the United States mainstream media services. Wonder how long (if ever) it will take until this story breaks in the United States. This stuff drives me up a wall.

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Three days ago, a German TV newsmagazine called "Report Mainz" broadcast an eight-minute segment reporting that the International Red Cross found at least 107 children in coaliton-administered detention centers in Iraq.

The report also quotes from a yet-unpublished June 2004 UNICEF report, which (as near as I can tell through my crappy German) confirms that children were routinely arrested and "interned" in a camp in Um-Qasr. UNICEF seems particularly vexed with the "internment" status, since that means indefinite detention.
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