{"id":1117,"date":"2004-07-05T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T23:32:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-07-05T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T23:32:23","slug":"iraqi-children-come-and-go-iran-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/05\/iraqi-children-come-and-go-iran-curious\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi children come and go; Iran curious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Information Clearing House <\/a> has a link to a Der Spiegel report
\n “More Than 100 Children Imprisoned<\/a>, Report Of Abuse By U.S. Soldiers.” <\/p>\n

When I first tried the link, it didn’t work, so I did a search on “100 children imprisoned.”
\nIt kicked out a story from April 8, 2003, “Iraqi child prisoners freed”<\/a> and associated
\ncrowing<\/a> and peacenik-bashing<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iran wants to know why, when Saddam faced the judge, no mention was
\nmade of the 1980-1988 war<\/a>, why the list of charges filed doesn’t include Iraq’s use of
\nchemical weapons<\/a> in that war.<\/p>\n

An obvious answer was provided by one of the ex-Iraqi generals interviewed <\/a> by
\nNewsweek in March, 2002:<\/p>\n

“One general interviewed by NEWSWEEK made no bones about his use of
\n chemical weapons. General al-Shamari commanded nine divisions in the
\n Iran-Iraq War before he defected in 1986. (Now 56, he runs a small
\n restaurant in northern Virginia.) He says he carried out Saddam\u2019s
\n orders to gas the Iranians, firing chemical weapons from howitzers.
\n The impact was devastating. ‘It created a state of chaos,’ said
\n al-Shamari. Given that he was miles from the target, how did he know
\n that? From U.S. intelligence. ‘We got information from American
\n satellites,’ said al-Shamari. (A former CIA official confirmed that
\n the United States, which was backing Iraq against Iran, provided
\n intelligence to the Iraqis. ‘Included in that, I\u2019m sure, would have
\n been some feedback, intended or unintended, to the Iraqis on their
\n use of chemical warfare,’ said the official.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Information Clearing House has a link to a Der Spiegel report “More Than 100 Children Imprisoned, Report Of Abuse By U.S. Soldiers.” When I first tried the link, it didn’t work, so I did a search on “100 children imprisoned.” It kicked out a story from April 8, 2003, “Iraqi child prisoners freed” and associated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}