Around 1,000 to be freed from Abu Ghraib as gesture

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 1,000 prisoners held at Abu Ghraib jail will be released this week after a request by Iraqi authorities for a goodwill gesture to mark Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, the U.S. military said on Monday.

The release will take place in stages over the coming week, with 500 prisoners to be set free on Monday, a statement said.

"These detainees were selected for release following a careful and thorough review of their files by a special Iraqi-led review board which determined they had not committed serious crimes," the military said. snip

About 4,200 are currently held at Abu Ghraib, which is notorious for the images of U.S. soldiers mocking, physically abusing and torturing Iraqi prisoners that emerged last year.

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1. Gesture, my ass!......

You don't think they see the writing on the wall? New revelations by a captain in the 82nd airborne (on the record) documenting systemic abuse? All this crap in Basra?

Like I'm sure this release will placate the Iraqi populace. Like the insurgents/resistance will be grateful.

I feel very bad for our troops who've been put in such a horrible predicament. They are "just following orders.":mad:

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2. A "gesture" for those who did not commit "serious" crimes?

It's taken them THIS long to figure out the they shouldn't really be there? And does that mean they'd STILL be sitting there if someone hadn't gotten same holiday spirit?

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