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AMERICA KICKS BUTT The Pentagon joined Marvel Comics in distributing an America Supports You comic to soldiers last year. Because who could be better for morale than Captain America...
...disorienting time for the U.S. Marine Corps in the wake of the alleged massacre of civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha. One senior Marine officer, for example, is spending his days with grim reading, as Congress, the Pentagon and the press investigate charges that the Marines were responsible for the deaths of some two dozen Iraqi civilians. He has gone through Congressional reports about the My Lai massacre. He has read America in Vietnam by Guenter Lewy. He has a well-thumbed copy of The Rape of Nanking, a searing account of Japanese atrocities in that Chinese city during...
...murder trial, which his lawyers are resisting, noting that he was a child at the time of the alleged crime. The U.S. has said Khadr was among the few juveniles being held at Guantánamo Bay. But a TIME analysis of data released earlier this month by the Pentagon indicates that Gitmo might have held as many as 24 prisoners under age 18, more than previously known. The real figure could be higher, given imprecise date-of-birth data for some detainees...
Many experts argue that international law, including the Geneva Conventions, requires that child prisoners be separated from adults and receive education while in detention. U.S. federal law has similar requirements and defines a juvenile as under 18. The Pentagon, which classifies only those younger than 16 as juveniles, has never denied that some Gitmo inmates under 18 were not segregated. Many of these youths were subject to the same conditions and interrogations as the adults. Some still at Gitmo have claimed through their lawyers that they have been beaten or abused...
...Pentagon spokesman Lieut. Commander Jeffrey Gordon told TIME that no juveniles are currently incarcerated at Gitmo; they have either matured past age 18 behind bars or been freed. Some kids--including three Afghans thought to be 10, 12 and 13 when they arrived--were segregated from adults, allowed to play sports and given lessons. But in many ways, they were viewed as no different from their grownup fellow inmates. In April 2003 General Richard Myers, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the three "may be juveniles but they're not on a Little League team anywhere. They...