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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 02:21 PM
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U.S. to close Abu Ghraib prison
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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 centre 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.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 02:25 PM
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1. Camp Cropper?
Exactly whose new democracy is this again?
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 02:27 PM
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2. Anyone knows you can't have Democracy without
Edited on Thu Mar-09-06 02:27 PM by dogday
a new prison....:sarcasm:
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 02:28 PM
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3. SSDD
Send em to the Crapper, er Cropper.
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