Camp Cropper

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Camp Cropper was a maximum security prison in the Victory Base Complex near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq , operated by the US Army .

Compared to the Abu Ghraib prison known from the media , this prison housed far fewer prisoners. There were mainly prisoners who were considered very valuable by the US government, such as B. until his execution the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein .

In June 2004, the Ministry of Defense of the United States had a report from the New York Times confirmed, after which the then CIA boss George Tenet permission from US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got to "a prisoner" secret at Camp Cropper internment . The International Committee of the Red Cross was unable to monitor his condition, contrary to the Geneva Conventions . Rumsfeld later claimed that the prisoner had been treated humanely.

In summer 2010 the property was handed over to the Iraqi government and renamed "Karkh Prison".

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1. ↑ Detainee Ops Chief Gives Karkh Prison Good Reviews US Army press release, accessed December 14, 2013

Coordinates: 33 ° 14 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 44 ° 13 ′ 8.6 ″  E