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September 17, 2009

US Closes Camp Bucca Prison
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The US meanwhile has closed Camp Bucca, once its largest prison in Iraq.
The Pentagon says it’s transferred Bucca’s remaining 180 prisoners to
two jails near Baghdad. US Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth King said the
prison’s closure comes as part of the US-Iraq security deal.

Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth King: “As a show of progress for the security
agreement and moving forward the government of Iraq, we’re going to put
the theater internment facility as a piece of history. And we’re going
to—it will be history, and we’ll move forward from here and progress.”

Camp Bucca once hosted thousands of prisoners without charge, with many
allegations of torture and abuse by US guards.



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