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As CBS' Couric moved on from Iraq, her colleague Lara Logan remained in Baghdad, filing an Exclusive profile of local special operations commandos, "Iraq's version of America's top counterterrorism unit Delta Force," trained by USArmy Green Berets and USNavy SEALs. Last year the unit was condemned as the "Dirty Squad" by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for its raids against Shiite militias in Baghdad. Since then, Sadr City has withdrawn its support for al-Maliki and "in the middle of constantly shifting alliances" the prime minister now deploys the squad in raids against his former allies.
ABC also filed an Exclusive from Baghdad, on the "huge increase in the number of juvenile detainees" held as prisoners of war. The Geneva Conventions forbade Martha Raddatz from showing their faces but there are 800 boys, aged 11 to 17, "illiterate, impoverished and unsupervised" who have been rounded up as child guerrilla warriors. "The military is required by international law to release juveniles after one year," so their wardens have to rush to indoctrinate them against violence and to convert them to soccer.
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