US MILITARY TO HAND OVER LAST DETENTION CENTRE IN IRAQ
Baku, July 15 (AZERTAC). Camp Cropper is the last of three US prisons handed over to Iraqi control
The US military is to hand over control of its last remaining detention centre in Iraq, as it increases the pace of its withdrawal from the country.
The Iraqi authorities will take charge of 1,600 of the 1,800 detainees at Camp Cropper, near Baghdad`s airport.
The US military has been asked to hold the remainder, some of them alleged members of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Earlier this week, 26 former members of Saddam Hussein`s regime, including his deputy PM Tariq Aziz, were transferred.
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