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| U.S. releases more Iraqi prisoners from Abu Ghraib |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/14/2004 |
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The U.S. military freed more detainees last Sunday from the prison that has been the center of a scandal involving abuse of Iraqi inmates by American soldiers. Relatives gathered outside the prison gates and waved as the detainees were loaded onto buses and driven out of the grim, walled Abu Ghraib detention center on the western outskirts of Baghdad. The men inside the buses waved and smiled back, their faces close to the windows as they frantically tried to communicate with relatives outside. The families then piled into cars and raced after U.S. Humvees and Iraqi police escorting the buses to towns where the prisoners were discharged. The buses headed to the Sunni strongholds of Tikrit and Ramadi. Last Sunday's release was the fourth major one from the facility since the scandal broke in April over the abuse of detainees by American guards. The military later said that some 320 men were released last Sunday, bringing down the current number to approximately 3,100. Prisoners are periodically freed from Abu Ghraib, which was also notorious for being a torture site during Saddam Hussein's regime. The U.S. military has said it will hand over the facility to Iraqi officials in August. |
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