US military spokesperson said on Thursday, that the US military would soon close Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison and transfer its 4500 detainees to another detention facility.

US detainee operations spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Kier-Kevin Curry said in a statement, "We will transfer operations from Abu Ghraib to the new Camp Cropper once construction is completed there". The transfer is likely to be completed within three months.
 
"No precise dates have been set, but the plan is to accomplish this within the next two to three months," he said.

US military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson said the Abu Ghraib facility would be handed over to the Iraqi authorities, "but we do not anticipate the Iraqi government to use it as a prison or a detention facility".

"However, it is up to them how to use it," Johnson said. The Iraqi government currently operates its own prison within the grounds of Abu Ghraib. The US military said it was responsible for 4537 detainees at Abu Ghraib.

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