Reuters: Abu Ghraib prison to close within 3 months

[TayTay]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-03-09T172628Z_01_L0915476_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-ABUGHRAIB.xml

US says to close Abu Ghraib prison
Thu Mar 9, 2006 12:26 PM ET

By Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military will close Abu Ghraib prison, probably within three months, and transfer some 4,500 prisoners to other jails in Iraq, a military spokesman said on Thursday.

The prison in western Baghdad was a torture center under Saddam Hussein before photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqis there in 2003 gave it a new notoriety and made it a touchstone for Arab and Muslim rage over the U.S. occupation.

"We will transfer operations from Abu Ghraib to the new Camp Cropper once construction is completed there," Lieutenant Colonel Keir-Kevin Curry told Reuters.

"No precise dates have been set, but the plan is to accomplish this within the next two to three months," said Curry, the spokesman for U.S. detention operations in Iraq.

MOre at web site.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Thank God

shudder...

[Mass]

2. What does it change?

Will the detainees have the right to challenge why they are there?

[TayTay]

3. Probably won't change that

That info isn't in the article. But at least it closes that hellhole of a place.

[movonne]

4. Well the other "jails in Iraq" going to be any better, or have they

built special rooms for torture?? maybe a little padding, a towel to wipe the blood off, some amplifiers, so the rest of the prisoners can hear the screams...

[flordehinojos]

5. WHERE WILL THEY GO TO TO HIDE THEIR NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES A/K/A

TORTURE? AND HOW MUCH WORSE WILL THE TORTURE GET IF THE LIGHT OF "REVELATION" IS NOT SHINING UP BUSH--AG/AG (ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO GONZALEZ) AND THE REST OF HIS GOONS?