More than 100 Children Locked Up? More Prisoner Abuse?

Buzzflash, from a reader who translated from the German periodical Der Spiegel, brings us a rather horrifying story of a great number of children being imprisoned in Iraq and that they have been the target of abuse by coalition forces.

I hope it's not true. But I also know the US has repeatedly said no civilians were killed or taken in certain raids, only to see rooms filled with children's bodies collected from such strikes. These are toddlers and six year olds, not a 15 yr old whom you could argue is trying to act like the big men in fighting.

There's even a relatively "good" reason for the lie: if we had any idea of how much of this sort of thing is going on, support for the war would fall even farther, even faster than it has. And I've seen some images (such as an Iraqi boy holding up a sign written by the American soldier standing next to him saying, "Corporal So-and-So murdered my father and raped my sister. God bless America) that show some abuse is definitely going on.