US forces release 2,250 Iraqi detainees
Submitted by William Kaelin on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 17:14.
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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