Who is in Abu Ghraib?

From The Washington Post:

The unit... was known for "grabbing whole villages, because combat soldiers [were] unable to figure out who was of value and who was not"... Its indiscriminate detention of Iraqis filled Abu Ghraib prison...

A member of a psychological operations... filed a formal complaint about how its soldiers treated Iraqis. He said detention practices were capricious, sometimes based on the whim of the commander or because more than $100 in Iraqi dinars had been found in someone's possession.

A few months later... the staff sergeant overseeing the interrogation section... was reprimanded after an Iraqi was beaten with a baton while being questioned. [The seargent's superior responded that the seargent] took the actions he did, partially, due to his perception of the command climate of the division as a whole." He noted, for example, that division leaders had made comments such as, "They are terrorists, and will be treated as such."

"Personnel at the ICE regularly see detainees who are, in essence, hostages," he charged. "They are normally arrested by coalition forces because they are family of individuals who have been targeted by a brigade based on accusations that may or may not be true, to be released, supposedly, when and if the targeted individual surrenders to coalition forces." In fact, he said, the U.S. military tended not to keep its end of the bargain because the detention system was so badly operated: "In reality, these detainees are transferred to Abu Ghraib prison and become lost in the coalition detention system regardless of whether the targeted individual surrenders himself."

A later review by the office of the Army inspector general said interrogators reported "detainees arriving at the cage badly beaten. Many beatings occurred after the detainees were zip-tied."

(The article also talks about a detainee that was murdered after voluntarily turning himself in, but the murderer was not charged because "He was a cook, he didn't get proper training, and this detainee was very aggressive, a bad guy." The article also talks about an officer who, in revenge for the killing of a solider, stopped a random pickup truck, handcuffed the people, and threw them into a river, where at least one of them drowned. The officer was not charged.)