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BAGHDAD, July 11 (KUNA) -- The US army holds 20,945 Iraqis, including 12
women and 366 juveniles, in its jails in Iraq, an army source said here Friday.
Those Iraqi detainees are put under control of the US Force 134 of the
Multinational Forces, the source, on anonymity, told the Kuwait News Agency
(KUNA).
The figure involves several members of Saddam Hussein's defunct Iraqi
regime, over 4,000 fundamentalists and 2,500 elements of Al-Qaeda network in
Iraq, the source added.
All those detainees are now being put under rehabilitation programs so that
they may become good and effective elements in the society once they are
freed, it said.
However, 9,000 detainees were released during the period from early 2008 to
June 31st, the source noted.
The Iraqi Supreme Judiciary Council has recently put the figure at 20,000
detainees, including 240 Arabs. (end)
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