US to spend £30million on Iraq prisons to hold insurgents

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By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 30/12/2005)

American forces in Iraq have launched a £30 million programme to expand military prisons after the number of suspected insurgents in custody doubled to 15,000.

The programme forms part of a two-pronged scheme which aims to ensure there is space to keep captured gunmen locked up and to hand over the task to the Iraqis.


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12/30/2005 US to spend £30million on Iraq prisons to hold insurgents-telegraph.co.uk

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1. your tax dollars at work

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