Abu Ghraib
Feb 23 2009, Wa'd

“The prison is officially open and we have received inmates. Hundreds are present”... This was the statement given by the director general of the reopened Abu Ghraib Prison, Alsharif Al Murtadha Abdul Al Mutalib.

Abu Ghraib, the old prison was...

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