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Jailed Iraqi children run free as marines roll into Baghdad suburbs

8th April 2003, 07:24 pm

Hey Not In Our Name! Cheryl Crow! Susan Sarandon! Michael Moore! Dixie Chicks! Martin Sheen!


What do you say to this?


Jailed Iraqi children run free as marines roll into Baghdad suburbs








BAGHDAD (AFP) – More than 100 children held in a prison celebrated their freedom as US marines rolled into northeast Baghdad amid chaotic scenes which saw civilians loot weapons from an army compound, a US officer said.

Around 150 children spilled out of the jail after the gates were opened as a US military Humvee vehicle approached, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Padilla told an AFP correspondent travelling with the Marines 5th Regiment.
“Hundreds of kids were swarming us and kissing us,” Padilla said.
“There were parents running up, so happy to have their kids back.”


“The children had been imprisoned because they had not joined the youth branch of the Baath party,” he alleged. “Some of these kids had been in there for five years.”

The children, who were wearing threadbare clothes and looked under-nourished, walked on the streets crossing their hands as if to mimic handcuffs, before giving the thumbs up sign and shouting their thanks.
It was not clear who had opened the doors of the prison.

Unfortunately this may be missed by those non-embedded journalists whose ears are still ringing after the tank shell hit the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. Not that Saddam’s forces would have been using them as human shields or anything. They wouldn’t stoop that low would they?

Five years in prison… Somebody needs to slap some sense into the above named “entertainers” and remind the journalists that the bar is temporarily closed at the Palestine..

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