Remember when the media reported Bush closed Abu Ghraib prison a few years ago? It was a lie

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1073597.ece

America closes abuse prison

August 29, 2006

By Ned Parker in Baghdad

THE prison that came to symbolise the abuse of Iraqis by US soldiers and the dark side of America’s war on terror has closed.

Prisoners have been transferred out of Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad, Wijdan Mikhail, the Iraqi Human Rights Minister, told The Times.

American Forces turned the prison over to the Iraqi authorities some time after removing the last prisoners on August 15, Busho Ibrahim, the country’s Deputy Justice Minister, said.

The US military confirmed that the transfer of nearly 3,000 detainees from Abu Ghraib to other prisons was planned, but refused to comment further. In March US officials had announced their plans to close the prison.

“We are currently in the process of transferring the Abu Ghraib facility back to the Government of Iraq,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Keir-Kevin Curry, the US military spokesman for detainee operations. “For operational security reasons, we would prefer not to discuss the actual timing of the operation until it is complete. This transfer will allow us to consolidate our effort at fewer sites and improve the conditions for both the coalition guards and the detainees.”

Mr Ibrahim said that the prisoners have already been moved to a new $60 million (£32 million) facility at the Camp Cropper detention centre, at Baghdad international airport. Camp Cropper already holds many high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s regime.



http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/February/middleeast_February211.xml§ion=middleeast

US frees scores from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison

12 February 2009

BAGHDAD - The US military has released more than 100 prisoners from Abu Ghraib jail, which has been renamed Baghdad Central Prison, Iraqi officials said on Thursday.

The human rights ministry told AFP the 107 Iraqis were freed from the prison in west Baghdad on Wednesday under the US-Iraqi security pact that calls for American soldiers to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011.

A series of releases started on February 3 as a key part of the deal signed in November that provides for a gradual return of Iraqi sovereignty and a handover of security responsibilities. snip

Detainees are being released ‘who the US and the government of Iraq think no longer pose a threat to the security or stability of Iraq,’ US Brigadier General David Quantock, who is charge of the prisoners, said last week.

[spanone]

1. nothing i find out about those criminals surprises me anymore....numb

[liberalmuse]

2. I HATE these people.

They shit on all that is sacred. I guess I shouldn't waste my energy, and just hope they get their just due.

[Solly Mack]

3. but but....we did close Abu Ghraib..and renamed it

so, the US wasn't at Abu Ghraib...but at Baghdad Central Prison

I can actually hear that being said.

K&R

[Igel]

4. Perhaps ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090212/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusprisoners

"The US military has released more than 100 prisoners at a camp adjoining the Iraqi capital's airport, the US military said on Thursday.

"The prisoners, who were released at Camp Cropper on Wednesday, came from there and from Camp Bucca, near the southern port city of Basra, Captain William Powell told AFP.

"Earlier an official at Iraq's human rights ministry had said 107 Iraqi detainees were released from Abu Ghraib jail, which has been renamed Baghdad Central Prison."


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It was said a few years back that detainees from AG were going to the newly built Camp Cropper.

[deaniac21]

5. But what about the koalas?