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US forces release 2,250 Iraqi detainees
Oct 3, 2008, 14:39 GMT
Baghdad - US forces released more than 2,250 Iraqi detainees during the fasting month of Ramadan which ended this week, a US forces media advisor said Friday.
'The detainees were released from Krupper jail near Baghdad airport and the Bucca detention center in west of Basra,' Kareem al- Sayab told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
Some 17,800 Iraqi prisoners are in US detention centres as well as foreigners, al-Sayab added.
In separate developments, Iraqi police killed a gunman and arrested four others during a house raid in Mosul, a spokesman for the Nineveh operations command, Khaled Abdul Sattar, said.
Mosul, is a city of Diyala province located 405 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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among the prisoners RAPEN WOMEN...Oct 4th, 2008 - 07:07:57
And MOLESTED CHILDREN make up 33% or more. What a shame for those who claim to be christians!
BUT NOT REALLY, THAT IS CHRISTIAN EUROPEAN BARABRISM FOR PAST600 years.
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