Afghan Taken To Guantanamo At Age 12: Rights Group

KABUL (Reuters) -- An Afghan who has spent over six years at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison was only around 12 years old when he was detained, not 16 or 17 as his official record says, an Afghan rights group said on Tuesday.

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Comments

[Paulo1]

08:01 AM on 05/27/2009

Lets see,

Child + Forced incarceration + plus abuse = Catholic Church in Ireland

Now must be changed to

Child + Forced Incarceration + Abuse/ non sexual = United States Military Facility

[Joseph VIII]

02:11 AM on 05/27/2009

Bad timing for this story to hit the MSM... What with Obama's SCOTUS pick dominating headlines and all.

Or is it convenient? For the Pentagon, I mean...

For a more detailed look at this story check out:

http://scaryfiles.bentzine.net/2009/05/12-year-old-afghan-boy-tortured-and-abused-at-gitmo/

and

http://scaryfiles.bentzine.net/2009/05/update-12-year-old-gitmo-prisoner-falsely-confessed-after-being-beaten-and-tortured/

[Lahonda]

11:52 PM on 05/26/2009

Cloooooooooose it.

[revhatchell]

11:03 PM on 05/26/2009

republican tough love

[SuzyQ08]

09:58 PM on 05/26/2009

This is ridiculous.

[brooklyncitizen]

08:37 PM on 05/26/2009

Wonder how many times they waterboarded this little boy.

[AngelaQuattrano]

10:41 PM on 05/26/2009

Until he confessed he was 18.

[brooklyncitizen]

08:36 PM on 05/26/2009

Yes....these are the people that are too dangerous to be placed within our US prison system with its hardened criminals and garden variety miscreants.

[mat3]

09:41 PM on 05/26/2009

Yeah, next time let the Afghan Police keep him and give him their special "under 12 treatment" instead of turning him over to the US.

[amalfedup]

10:51 PM on 05/26/2009

And you don't think that the same people who posed with naked prisoners in Abu Graib were in charge of this young defenseless man. Your comment is nauseating.

[CJWebber]

08:31 PM on 05/26/2009

Unbelievable.

[Khirad]

07:10 PM on 05/26/2009

Classy. I suppose we didn't feel the need to give him an education he wouldn't get there, right?

[wereeverywhere]

07:37 PM on 05/26/2009

Well now he's giving us an education on US paranoid policy. From Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/12/04/mohammed-jawad

Like the case of Omar Khadr, the US has ignored Jawad's juvenile status at the time of his alleged offense. Whereas other children detained at Guantanamo were given special housing and education programs, and were eventually released to rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan, Jawad has been housed with adults, not provided any rehabilitation assistance, and was held for over six years prior to being charged, contrary to international standards on the treatment of children in detention.

On the reference to Omar Khadr, from Amnesty International :http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/omar-khadr-must-be-immediately-repatriated-canada-20080715

“No one who was a child at the time of their alleged crime should be tried by military commissions, which have no juvenile justice provisions whatsoever,” said Amnesty International. “Omar Khadr should either be repatriated and tried in Canada by an ordinary court or released.”

[Babysnake]

06:58 PM on 05/26/2009

Amazing what our government and soldiers do to children.

[brooklyncitizen]

08:36 PM on 05/26/2009

not amazing.