America’s largest detention facility is here in Iraq’s southern desert. What will the US military do with the 5,000 Iraqi prisoners. And what will happen to those already in detention — about 17,000 people in all?
In theory, the United States would no longer have the right to continue to hold them after 31 December. With the United States seeking to slowly sneak out of Iraq, American commanders say they are eager to close down a system that has proved to be a drain on cash and, after the revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib, American credibility.
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