| Gold stories | | 9-1. Iraqi Detainee Centre | | David Furst (USA) AFP | |
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US Army soldier salutes Iraqi detainees holding an Iraqi flag and singing the
national anthem after the soldier prompted them to do so, inside the Camp Bucca
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etention center located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, on May 19, 2008.
There are approximately 22,000 detainees 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.
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