July 08, 2004

Few foreign fighters held in Iraq:

Iraq's government said it was holding only 29 foreign fighters at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
"Those on the list included four Saudis, four Syrians, four Jordanians, two Yemenis, an Egyptian, a Turk, a Lebanese, a Palestinian, a Moroccan and an Iranian.

Some 60 other foreign fighters were being held elsewhere in Abu Ghraib and at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, for 'anti-Iraq activities that threaten the security of coalition forces,' said Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Johnson, the US military's spokesman for detention operations.

More than 22,000 Iraqis have been through the prison system since the end of the war last May. There are currently 5,500 Iraqi prisoners listed as "suspected combatants"."

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