Matt Drudge hates America

Never thought I'd link to Drudge, but this is disturbing(translated from German):

...The TV magazine reported tips and testimonies that US soldiers in Iraqi prisons are reportedly mistreating children and youth as well. Samuel Provance, an NCO stationed in the notorious Abu Ghreib prison said, Interrogation specialist had besieged a 16 year old girl in her cell. Military police only intervened when she was half undressed. Another time a 16 year old was showered with water, driven out into the cold weather and smeared with mud.

The child welfare organization of the United Nations (UNICEF) confirms the capture of Iraqi children by the foreign military, according to “Report” with reference to an internal memorandum of the organization. Literally, according to the up to now unpublished document from June 2004: Children, arrested in Basra and Kerbela for alleged activities directed against the Coalitions forces, were according to the memorandum, routinely transferred to interment facility Umm Kasr. The classification of these children as prisoners is alarming, there is the indefinite imprisonment without contact with their family...