Inmate's murder triggers second Iraq jail riot

[Barrett808]

The murder of a prisoner at a United States-run Iraqi prison has triggered a fight between detainees that left 12 injured.

The US military has confirmed that the riot is the second at the jail in two weeks.

In a statement, the military says the fight broke out last night and was confined to detainees at Camp Bucca just outside the port city of Umm Qasr.

"The guards regained control of the compound and immediately began rendering medical treatment to 12 other detainees who were injured during the fight," the statement said.

"The fight was confined between the detainees in one compound and was not directed at US forces."

The statement went on to say the remains of the murdered prisoner would be handed over to the Iraqi Government and then returned to the family after the completion of an autopsy.

The incident comes just two weeks after 12 prisoners and four US guards were wounded in a riot in which detainees burned tents and hurled rocks at Camp Bucca, which is the country's largest US-run detention facility with more than 6,000 inmates.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1346522.htm

[acmavm]

1. And the justification to be holding all these people in a prison in their

own country being run by an occupying force is?? Is there any questions as to why it might be a little tense there?

This is jst so incredibly screwed up.

[Selteri]

2. More to come, and more and more

Until we take back our country and give Iraq back to the Iraqi people without conditions.