We speak with Hugh Sykes, BBC correspondent in Baghdad, for a look at the current situation in Iraq. Sykes visited the largest American internment camp in Iraq, Camp Bucca, as it was being dismantled. Many of the detainees from the camp have been released without being charged; the remaining prisoners have been transferred to other camps, although those camps will also soon have to shut down.
"At its peak, Camp Bucca held 22,000 people without charge, without trial. Suspected insurgents, people like that. There are still 8,305 such people at camps, Camps Cropper and Taji, which I think, interestingly, compares to the total number of detainees still interned in Guantanamo Bay ... which is just 295."
—Hugh Sykes, BBC correspondent, on the number of people currently held in American internment camps in Iraq
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