that was razaza checkpoint? this is where the men are going missing? >> navai: relatives have given ahmad salmani the names of over 2,000 men they say disappeared from razaza checkpoint. he says militia insiders have told him the abducted men are in a network of prisons run by the hezbollah brigades around the town of jurf al sakhar. >> navai: does the government know this is happening? >> navai: the defense minister has since left his position. he doesn't reply to my request to talk to him. i ask vice president allawi about the militia prisons. does the government know about the secret prisons run by the shia militias? >> definitely. but they don't want to confront these secret prisons because they are held and controlled by strong militias. >> navai: like jurf al sakhar prison? >> for example. >> navai: over 2,000 men and boys who were taken at razaza checkpoint? >> yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. so nobody knows why they are remaining in prison. the issue here which really is frightening, there is no attention being paid by the government to tackle this, t