Six killed in attack on U.S. prison in Iraq

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, June 9 (Reuters) - Six civilian detainees were killed and at least 50 wounded when rockets or mortars were fired into the U.S.-run Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said.

Military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver said the attack involved an unspecified number of mortar rounds or rockets fired into the prison. He gave no further details.

U.S.-run detention camps, such as the former Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad, have been attacked by insurgents in the past, but such attacks are rare.

About 16,000 detainees are held in Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper near Baghdad.



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The Iraqi people do not want US prisons in their country.

[bemildred]

1. Sixteen thousand?

:wow:

[The Stranger]

2. This is what was happening at Abu Gharib before the torture there was revealed.

No one could understand why the Iraqi resistance was bombing the prison to kill their own, and it was to end the torture that the Neo-Nazi-Cons were carrying out there -- torture which to this day has never been completely investigated by Congress.

[Poiuyt]

3. Oh shit. My nephew is at Camp Bucca

He has only about two months before his enlistment is up.

[uppityperson]

4. a friend's grandson is there in the same position.

She said he was not allowed for a long time to tell them he was there but now that he is almost done he can. Not sure why but she said he said (I know) something about not wanting the names of those there known for safety of family here in USA. (I know, he said, she said, she thought it was odd also and she is one of the smartest cookies I know)