'Secret prisons' discoverd in Iraq

Slogger Source: Illicit Facility Holds over 400 Sunnis, Militia Role Suspected

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Composite satellite image of Baghdad's Kadhimiya district, west of the Tigris river.

07/19/2007 4:16 PM ET

A “secret prison,” possibly run by one of Iraq’s powerful militias, has been discovered by the Iraqi government in Baghdad, according to a Slogger source.
IraqSlogger has learned from an informed source inside the Iraqi administration that some days ago an off-the-grid prison was discovered in the Baghdad district of Kadhimiya, holding approximately 415 prisoners in its underground facility.
The prisoners inside reportedly date back to the tenure of the previous minister of the Interior, Bayan Jabr Solagh, who held that post from 2005 to 2006.
The prison was reportedly discovered in Kadhimiya’s fifth district within the last few days, and very few Iraqi officials even at high levels of government know any details about the installation. According to Slogger's source, the facility is said to have contained over 600 people at one time, mostly Sunni Arabs, among them pilots, colonels, generals and other military officers who held positions of influence in the former regime, though many prisoners were also ordinary citizens.

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