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<b>daniel grisinger (daniel@netgods.net)</b> has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.)
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this is what the peace activists were opposed to. this is what the antiwar crowd is--a group of people demonstrating in favor of the right of a vicious dictator to imprison children.
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<br>how about it, guys, do you still think that these children were better off sitting in an iraqi prison than they are free?
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<i>Jailed Iraqi children run free as marines roll into Baghdad suburbs</i><br>
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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.
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"Hundreds of kids were swarming us and kissing us," Padilla said.
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"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."
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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.
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Other residents stole air conditioning units, television sets and furniture from government buildings in an echo of the looting that was seen in the southern city of Basra.
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