Winners of 5th China Int'l Press Photo Contest: General News Stories Gold
2009-03-25 09:27:04 GMT2009-03-25 17:27:04 (Beijing Time)
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US Army soldiers carry shot guns as they walk along a corridor separating what they deem to be the most extreme and dangerous detainees held inside the Camp Bucca detention center located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, on May 19, 2008. (AFP/David Furst)
Children of an Iraqi detainee embrace their father during visitation at the Camp Bucca detention center, located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, on May 20, 2008. (AFP/David Furst)
Iraqi women embrace their detained husbands during visitation at the Camp Bucca detention centre, located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, on May 20, 2008. (AFP/David Furst)
A US Army soldier salutes Iraqi detainees holding an Iraqi flag and singing the Iraqi national anthem after the soldier prompted them to do so, inside the Camp Bucca detention centre located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, on May 19, 2008. (AFP/David Furst)
An Iraqi detainee sits outside a classroom inside the Camp Bucca detention centre located near the Kuwait-Iraq border, on May 19, 2008. (AFP/David Furst)
Winner of 5th China Int'l Press Photo Contest: General News Stories Gold -- Camp Bucca detention center in Iraq, David Furst, AFP.
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.
