U.S. walks through the empty prison cells at the Abu Ghraib prison just outside Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)
Iraq Detainees Claim U.S. Citizenship Story aired: Wednesday, September 17, 2003
In Baghdad, U.S. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told reporters that of the 4,400 security detainees being held by American forces in Iraq, six of them claim to be Americans, and two of them say they're British.
The Defense Department cannot confirm yet if their claims are true.
According to intelligence reports leaked to the New York Times, the resistance in Iraq is not, as the Bush administration has been saying, the work of terrorists. Rather, ordinary Iraqis are resisting U.S. troops, angry about the lack of services and what they see as a U.S. occupation.
