Sun Nov 15, 8:00 PM ET

US soldiers guard Camp Bucca prison on the outskirts of the southern city of Basra, 550 kms from Baghdad, in September 2009. Iraq's Camp Bucca, the US-run jail where around 100,000 prisoners were kept over six years, was a breeding ground for the Al-Qaeda terror network, according to police and former inmates. (AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)

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