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U.S. Releases 500 Inmates From Abu Ghraib
Detainees leaving Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad wave farewell to relatives and friends who will remain at the prison. The roughly 500 detainees freed Monday are part of a plan to reduce the prison population at the infamous prison to between 1,500 and 2,000 by the June 30 transfer of power to the Iraqi transitional government.

 

Former prisoners smile after being released from Abu Ghraib. (Andrea Bruce Woodall/Post)

A son reaches up to greet his father, a released detainee. (Andrea Bruce Woodall/Post)

An Iraqi is embraced by relatives and family after stepping off a bus transporting him from Abu Ghraib prison. Some detainees were saddened at leaving family members behind. (Andrea Bruce Woodall -- The Washington Post)

For Freed Iraqis, Mixed Emotions

Many Leaving Abu Ghraib Cite Improvements Since Scandal

By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 15, 2004; Page A01

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, June 14 -- Just after sunrise, the detainees began lining up inside the trash-strewn compound where they had spent the night -- their last night -- at this infamous prison west of Baghdad. [...]

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