Camp Bucca
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| Controlled by | Iraq |
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| Battles and wars | Iraq War |
| In use | 2003–2009 |
| Occupants | Iraqi |
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| ID | 963198 |
About Camp Bucca
Camp Bucca was a detention facility maintained by the United States military in the vicinity of Umm Qasr, Iraq. As of June 2011, a group of entrepreneurial Iraqis and Americans are re-building Camp Bucca as Basra Gateway, a logistic center.
Baghdadi's death: What now?
...-run prison camp in Camp Bucca, HAS grown out of the largely defeated, the remnants of al-Qaeda in Iraq...
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: IS leader 'killed in US operation' in Syria
... Others suggest he was radicalised during the time he was held at Camp Bucca, a US facility in southern Iraq where many al-Qaeda commanders were detained...
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: US 'conducts operation against IS chief' - US media
... Before then, he was incarcerated in the US-run Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, where he formed alliances with other future IS operatives...
Islamic State group: Will chaos in Syria allow IS to re-emerge?
... After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 the genesis of today s IS started out in the confines of the US-run Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca prison camps that were set up...
