U.S. Admits to Secret Interrogation Site in Baghdad

Hundreds of detainees released from Abu Ghraib prison

Friday, May 21, 2004

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Iraqis interrogated at the site were in a broad category of more senior than the average security detainee, but none were in the deck of cards that depicted the most senior members of Saddam Hussein's regime. Insurgents and suspected terrorists were among those questioned at the facility

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- CNN
As hundreds of detainees were released from Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, a senior U.S. official Friday confirmed that a previously undisclosed U.S. military interrogation facility at or near Baghdad International Airport does indeed exist.

The official said the site was run in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and all detainees were afforded their rights under that international document.

"That's not to say somebody didn't get their head dunked in the water," he said.

U.S. Special Forces participated in running the site, he added.

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