The US government has disclosed it’s imprisoned around 2,500 youths below the age of eighteen as “illegal combatants” in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay since 2002. In a filing with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Bush administration says most of the youths were imprisoned in Iraq. 500 juveniles remain in US prisons there. Ten juvenile prisoners are still being held at the Bagram base in Afghanistan. Eight juveniles have been brought to Guantanamo Bay. Two of them remain: Omar Khadr, now twenty-one years old, and Mohammed Jawad, now twenty-three.