Certainly there were some evil, evil people in there, ... But they are casting a very wide net, and anything that's scooped up in it will be thrown in a cell, and they'll sort it out later.

I understand our soldiers need to take all precautions in a war zone, but once a person is found innocent,

[At first, Kar said, he was suspicious.] I was scared that the government might have sent him to spy on me, ... No detainee in solitary confinement was allowed to talk to any other detainee, so it was unusual?. The MPs said that it was allowed only because we both were 'cleared.' Eventually, I realized he was not a spy, and I warmed up to him.

I couldn't have more respect for the rank-and-file soldiers, but the system is broken, ... When an Iraqi is detained there, he comes out angry and wanting payback.

What hit me was, there was no mercy,

I have the right to a lawyer?