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An Iraqi detainee washes his feet inside the Camp Bucca detention center
located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, on May 19, 2008. There are
approximately 22,000 detain
ees being held by US forces in two detention
facilities in Iraq, up from only about 14,000 before the American troop surge
this year. Camp Bucca currently holds 19,070 detainees in 33 separate
compounds. The detainee population contains, juveniles, insurgents of all
anti-coalition groups in Iraq, and innocent Iraqis detained during military
operations. |
