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16:18 GMT 17:18 UK Abu Ghraib: Dark stain on Iraq's past By
Martin Asser BBC News  US troops in Abu Ghraib, 22 April 2003
(Photo: BBC/Martin Asser) US troops inspect a mass grave after
taking control of Abu Ghraib in April 2003 Abu Ghraib prison
lurks behind high walls and brooding watchtowers on the main
highway west of Baghdad.  A square kilometre of hell during
Saddam Hussein's horrific rule, it has retained some of its
malevolence since US forces took over the facility, two weeks
after toppling the Iraqi regime.  The huge prison complex was
built by Western contractors in the 1960s.  The size of a small
town, the area was divided into five separate walled compounds
for different types of prisoners.  By the fall of the regime in
2003 these compounds were designated for foreign prisoners, long
sentences, short sentences, capital crimes and "special" crimes.
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