Oh No

Reuters (via Mark Kleiman)

"According to allegations collected by the ICRC, ill-treatment during interrogation was not systematic, except with regard to persons arrested in connection with suspected security offences or deemed to have an 'intelligence' value.'"

[snip]

"In the case of 'High Value Detainees' held in Baghdad International Airport,"

Does this mean that abuse at Abu Ghraib was mild compared to the abuse of "'High Value Detainees' held in Baghdad International Airport" ?

It certainly means that the victims of abuse in the photographs which we have all seen were not leading terrorists or insurgents and were not the prisoners who were thought to know the most important secrets, since such "high value" prisoners were held at the airport and not at Abu Ghraib.