US to begin transfer of Iraqi prisoners on Feb 1

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Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) — ... "The first batch of files to be reviewed by the government of Iraq (GoI) will be available December 15," Brigadier General David Quantock told US and Iraqi officials ...

Quantock, who heads Task Force 134, the organisation directly responsible for the care and custody of detainees held by coalition forces, was addressing the first meeting of a special committee which met on Wednesday to discuss the fate of prisoners.

"Their decisions should be based on their intelligence information or existing arrest warrants," he said ...

Some 15,800 prisoners are currently held in two locations -- Camp Cropper within Camp Victory near Baghdad airport and Camp Bucca, a sprawling US detention facility in the Um Qasr port area of the southern city of Basra ...

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