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"Guantanamo Bay: 245 prisoners.

US camps in Iraq: 8,305 prisoners.

They're in two relatively small camps near Baghdad. The third - and most used - Camp Bucca, in the southern desert, has just closed.

Here's a taste of it:

Standard detainee 'issue'. And here they are wearing it. I've blanked out identifiable faces, as required by the Geneva Convention:

They walk round

and round

and round

and round

in the fierce desert sun. 48 deg in the shade the day I visited. No shade.

Guards

Internment. Not my word. Theirs: they call it a Theater Internment Facility.

General David Quantock: "We know for a fact, for a FACT that these men are highly dangerous". Not enough facts to use in court yet, however. Some of the men in yellow have been walking round their exercise pens for three years.

Oh, and ever wondered how hacks like me get to these 'facilities' in the desert?:

Crammed into the back of a Hercules C130. No cabin service, but free earplugs:

One consolation - the General flies cattle class too:"

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