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Sunday, September 17, 2006

U.S. War Prisons Legal Vacuum for 14,000

Oh, yeah, House of Reps, y'all were so right to pass a resoluion saying you've been doing everything right since 9/11.


"In Iraq, Army jailers are a step ahead. Last month they opened a $60-million, state-of-the-art detention center at Camp Cropper, near Baghdad's airport. The Army oversees about 13,000 prisoners in Iraq at Cropper, Camp Bucca in the southern desert, and Fort Suse in the Kurdish north.

"Neither prisoners of war nor criminal defendants, they are just "security detainees" held "for imperative reasons of security," spokesman Curry said, using language from an annex to a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the U.S. presence here.

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