April 09, 2008 07:00:01 PMCAMP CONSTITUTION, Iraq — Barefoot in his yellow jumpsuit, the young detainee's eyes welled up as he described in a shaking voice how he landed in an Iraqi army detention facility on the outskirts of Baghdad.
He was visiting his mother in the hospital when Iraqi soldiers raided the hospital and detained him and several others, said Thamer Hamed, 22. They handcuffed and blindfolded him and took him to a holding cell at a former U.S. military base, ironically named Camp Constitution, that's been handed over to the Iraqi army. There, he was told that he was accused of murder. That was 45 days ago, and he still hadn't seen a judge, he said.
Asked to which religious sect he belongs, he smiled ruefully.
"Come on, I'm Sunni. Everyone here is Sunni."
Hamed is just one of thousands of detainees who are locked up in Iraqi-run detention centers.
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