...crackdown Baghdad has raised the rolls in US-run detention centres to 10,000 more detainees compared to this time in 2006, worsening already serious backlogs in the court system. Several men being released on Oct. 10 interrupted the judge's speech to complain that they had been held for months, even years, without cause. The judge explained that as long as parts of the country remained dangerous, authorities will err on the side of caution and round up hundreds of men at once, without taking the time to listen to individual stories.

"We cannot investigate every single one of you to get to the truth", the judge told the group of men and boys who sat on wooden...

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