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	Camp Cropper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camp Cropper is a high-value detention site (HVD) near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, operated by the United States Army.
		Camp Cropper was established by the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) 115th Military Police Battalion in April 2003.
		After being processed at Camp Cropper detainees were supposed to be shipped to other detention faciities in Baghdad and throughout Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camp_Cropper (340 words)

	Camp Bucca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camp Bucca is the name of a holding facility for prisoners of war maintained by the United States military in the vicinity of Umm Qasr.
		On October 13, 2005, Eligible detainees at Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib prison and Camp Cropper are allowed to vote in the Iraqi Constitutional Referendum.
		Christopher T. Monroe assigned to the 785th Military Police Battalion stationed at Camp Bucca is killed when his 5-ton truck is involved in an automobile accident with a civilian vehicle in the vicinity of Basra, Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camp_Bucca (1310 words)

	Stop the War Coalition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Camp Cropper, 9 June 2003: Six persons deprived of their liberty were injured by live ammunition after a guard opened fire on me group in an attempt to quell a demonstration.
		Camp Cropper, 12 June 2003: Two, or possibly three, persons deprived of their liberty were shot at when they attempted to escape through the barbed wire fence.
		Camp Bucca, 22 September 2003: Following unrest in a section of the camp, one person deprived of his liberty, allegedly throwing stones, was fired upon by a guard in a watchtower.
	www.stopwar.org.uk /new/news/articles/icrc_report_5.htm (985 words)

	Abuse reported at U.S.-run site before scandal / Camp Cropper seen as early incubator for mistreatment
		The alleged abuses at Camp Cropper during last May and June were severe enough to have prompted formal complaints to U.S. commanders from visiting officials of the International Committee for the Red Cross.
		After several visits to Camp Cropper, where they interviewed Iraqi prisoners, officials of the group cited in early June at least 50 incidents of abuse reported to have taken place in a part of the center under the control of military interrogators.
		At Camp Cropper, as at most U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, the military intelligence brigade, which was responsible for interrogations, operated in a structure parallel to the military police, who were in charge of the prison and its prisoners.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/15/MNG006M7VF1.DTL (688 words)

	campscrappy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Camp Scrappy is a, women's weekend retreat for scrapbook enthusiasts.
		Camp Scrappy "Mom and Me" weekend is scheduled for June 18-20 2004.
		Camp Scrappy 2004 is scheduled for Sept. 10-12.
	www.geocities.com /scrapaholicmt/campscrappy.html (131 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In addition to Abu Ghraib, they included Camp Bucca in the south; Camp Cropper, a high-value prisoner center near the Baghdad airport; and Camp Ashraf, a former camp for the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq, which was being used to detain its members.
		Camp Vigilant, another tent camp, was divided into four units with about 100 inmates each and was set aside for prisoners believed to have the most intelligence value.
		And at Camp Rhino, John Walker Lindh, the American now serving a 20-year sentence for aiding the Taliban, was stripped and bound with duct tape to a stretcher for two days, according to the statement of fact in his plea-bargain agreement.
	www.ticam.utexas.edu /~organism/random-stuff/interesting-articles/prisoner_mistreatment.txt (19883 words)

	Baghdad International Airport [BIAP], formerly Saddam International Airport
		On 09 June 2003 there was a riot and shootings of five detainees at Camp Cropper, operated by the 115th MP Battalion) Several detainees allegedly rioted after a detainee was subdued by MPs of the 115th MP Battalion after striking a guard in compound B of Camp Cropper.
		As of August 2005 a new compound was being constructed at Cropper.
		Camp Griffin is on the north side of the the Baghdad International Airport Compound.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/saddam-iap.htm (2866 words)

	More than 13,000 being held by coalition in Iraqi prisons; Less than 2% have been convicted
		Camp Cropper, housed at the Baghdad International Airport, is considered to be the prime locaition of the worst detainee abuse and was the precursor on detainee abuse techniques to Abu Ghraib.
		Among the scandals of Camp Cropper, the most notable is the 2003 shooting of five unarmed detainees.
		Though Camp Cropper was alleged to have been shut down in September of 2003, it still continues to operate, according to the CENTCOM slide.
	www.infowars.com /articles/iraq/13k_held_iraqi_prisons_less_2_percent_convicted.htm (1086 words)

	Charleston.Net: News: War on Terror: U.S. military closes makeshift prison Camp Cropper 10/06/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Journalists were barred from Camp Cropper, but released detainees this summer told of overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, and they alleged physical abuse by guards.
		The camp population included both Iraqis picked up for allegedly committing common crimes and so-called "security detainees," mainly Baathists deemed to be a threat to the security of the occupation force.
		Sabatino said Cropper was shut down Wednesday, on Bremer's orders, and its several hundred inmates were transferred to at least three Baghdad-area prisons.
	www.warblogging.com /warfarking/mirror/1065449009.html (523 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / US concedes, shuts prison in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The US military has shut down Camp Cropper, an increasingly notorious makeshift prison where hundreds of Iraqis were crowded into tents through Baghdad's scorching summer, a US official reported yesterday.
		The camp population included both Iraqis picked up for allegedly committing common crimes, and "security detainees," mainly Ba'athists deemed to be a threat to the security of the occupation force.
		Cropper held as many as 1,200 detainees this summer, Sabatino said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/10/06/us_concedes_shuts_prison_in_iraq (467 words)

	One Replacement Prison Finished in Iraq
		Detainees will also be moved to an expanded facility at Camp Cropper and the existing facility at Camp Bucca, in southern Iraq.
		The plans call for U.S. forces to move an unspecified number of "prisoners of interest" now detained at Abu Ghraib to Camp Cropper, a U.S. detention facility near Baghdad, where they would remain under U.S. control, said a civilian member of U.S. Army Europe headquarters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
		Camp Cropper currently houses around 150 detainees, officials said.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,79666,00.html (627 words)

	The New York Times > Washington > Earlier Jail Seen as Incubator for Abuses in Iraq
		The alleged abuses at Camp Cropper last May and June were severe enough to have prompted formal complaints to American commanders from visiting officials of the International Committee for the Red Cross.
		After several visits to Camp Cropper, where they interviewed Iraqi prisoners, officials of the I.C.R.C. in early July 2003 cited at least 50 incidents of abuse reported to have taken place in a part of the prison under the control of military interrogators.
		To date, the Camp Cropper facility, one of the first opened by the United States military in Iraq, has largely escaped the public scrutiny attached to other facilities in Iraq, particularly Abu Ghraib, which did not open until August and became the site of the most horrific abuses.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/05/15/politics/15ABUS.html?ex=1399953600&en=d35ca7592586ee26&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (714 words)

	INDEX: US Bases in Iraq: Part I: Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Parsons was contracted in 11/04 for the construction of training facilities and for the procurement and construction of a shooting house and staging buildings; and in 12/04 for “site preparation, road and groundwork,” as well as for a water supply system and the procurement and installation of an electrical system.
		Camp Stryker, FOB Morgan is 10 miles from central Baghdad, and is a base for paratroopers.
		Camp Griffin is responsible for radar in the northern 2/3rds of Iraq.
	indexresearch.blogspot.com /2006/04/us-bases-in-iraq-part-i-baghdad.html (2872 words)

	Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ The U.S. military has shut down Camp Cropper, an increasingly notorious makeshift prison where hundreds of Iraqis were crowded into tents through Baghdad's scorching summer, a U.S. official reported Sunday.
		The human rights group Amnesty International protested it "may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, banned by international law." The camp population included both Iraqis picked up for allegedly committing common crimes, and so-called "security detainees," mainly Baathists deemed to be a threat to the security of the occupation force.
		Sabatino said Cropper was shut down last Wednesday, on Bremer's orders, and its several hundred inmates were transferred to at least three Baghdad-area prisons.
	www.newsbee.net /apbaghdad (7586 words)

	Cageprisoners.com - serving the caged prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dramatic details of conditions at Camp Cropper, the top-secret Baghdad prison where Saddam Hussein is being held, have been revealed by a senior UN weapons inspector.
		Dr Rod Barton, former special adviser to the Iraq Survey Group and a leading expert in chemical and biological weapons, was involved in the interrogation of Iraqi scientists at Camp Cropper.
		Camp Cropper leapt into the headlines last week when the Sun published photos of Saddam in his underpants.
	www.cageprisoners.com /articles.php?id=7428 (432 words)

	Camp Bucca - SourceWatch
		Camp Bucca, according William Chien in the April 16, 2003, "Iraq Crisis Bulletin," (http://www.iraqcrisisbulletin.com/archives/041603/html/coalition_s_iraq_pow_camp_in_s.html) is located "somewhere in the sands of southern Iraq" and is "the only prisoner-of-war camp under" the command of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
		Camp Bucca is named after Ronald Bucca who was a soldier in our unit and a NYC Fire Marshal.
		To put up a camp, Army planners first scout out a site isolated enough to be able to protect the prisoners and their guards from attack.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Camp_Bucca (2482 words)

	A Prison on the Brink
		While renovations were underway, the military came up with a temporary alternative: Camp Cropper, a collection of tents and small buildings at the Baghdad airport.
		But with street crime on the rise and the insurgency in Baghdad becoming bolder, Cropper was teeming with prisoners by the summer of 2003.
		Six of the seven criminally charged soldiers are now stationed in Camp Victory, a U.S. base near the Baghdad airport, where they are awaiting their fate.
	foi.missouri.edu /whistleblowing/prisononbrink.html (3452 words)

	Abu Ghraib is heading for closure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The construction includes a $30 million expansion of Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport, where former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being held; a $13.5 million expansion of Camp Bucca in southern Iraq; and an $8 million renovation of a Russian-built training facility in northeastern Iraq.
		For example, Brandenburg said, four compounds at Camp Bucca, where a massive escape attempt was thwarted in March and where there have been several violent uprisings, are being converted to buildings instead of tents, at a cost of $12 million.
		A new field hospital was built at Camp Bucca at a cost of $1.5 million, which, along with a similar facility at Abu Ghraib, provides detainees with a level of care “that exceeds that available to the average Iraqi,” he said.
	www.hillnews.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/102605/news4.html (700 words)

	Inside Secret Saddam Prison
		Inside the buildings of Camp Cropper are the windowless cells, two metres square.
		And in a separate interview a former Australian interrogator at Camp Cropper has revealed to The Observer for the first time the regime inside the prison, including suggestions that some of those arriving at the facility had been badly beaten.
		I believe some were former intelligence officials who had been beaten prior to their arrival at Camp Cropper to soften them up for questioning.' Barton, who saw photographs of at least two prisoners with bad facial abrasions, asked questions about the situation and was told they had received them when they 'resisted arrest'.
	www.rense.com /general65/ssadd.htm (1611 words)

	443rd MP Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Baghdad's central booking is Camp Cropper, a holding compound for detainees accused of the most horrible sorts of crimes; it's also holding some who are guilty of curfew violation.
		Baghdad's Camp Cropper is the first stop for booking and holding criminals that for so long have escaped justice until now.
		Justice arrived at Camp Cropper with the 115th MP Battalion and is now becoming part of the Iraqi culture as criminals are facing the reality of jail time for their crimes.
	www.usarc.army.mil /99thrsc/443rd_mp_company.htm (449 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The prison in western Baghdad was a torture center under Saddam Hussein before photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqis there in 2003 gave it a new notoriety and made it a touchstone for Arab and Muslim rage over the U.S. occupation.
		Camp Cropper is a detention facility in the U.S. military headquarters base at Baghdad airport, not far from Abu Ghraib.
		U.S. military officials say a purpose-built prison at Camp Cropper will provide better conditions for Iraqis detained on suspicion of insurgent activity.
	www.paratrooper.net /commo/Topic191979-87-1.aspx (375 words)

	Inside Saddam's prison - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Inside the buildings of Camp Cropper are the windowless cells, two meters square.
		For Saddam Hussein -- and the other "high-value detainees" -- the shrinking of his world to the tiny boxes of Camp Cropper is the most visible sign of how his life has been transformed.
		In a separate interview, a top U.N. weapons inspector who was involved in interrogating prisoners at Camp Cropper has revealed to the Observer details about the regime inside the prison, including suggestions that some of those arriving at the facility had been badly beaten.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/05/23/saddam_prison/print.html (971 words)

	Rumsfeld Issued an Order to Hide Detainee in Iraq as Torture-gate expands
		He was not held at Abu Ghraib, but at another prison, Camp Cropper, on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport, officials said.
		But once he was placed into custody at Camp Cropper, where about 100 detainees deemed to have the highest intelligence value are held, he received only one cursory arrival interrogation from military officers and was never again questioned by any other military or intelligence officers, according to Pentagon and intelligence officials.
		At Camp Cropper, some prisoners had been held since June 2003 for nearly 23 hours a day in solitary confinement in small cells without sunlight, according to a report by the international Red Cross.
	www.axisoflogic.com /cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=62&num=9254&printer=1 (902 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Husseins new regime behind bars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is no ordinary city shrub: The tree sits inside Camp Cropper, a US-run prison at Baghdad's fortified airport.
		Eight months of confinement to a 10-by-13-foot cell has imposed an introspective lifestyle on Hussein, who is allowed three hours of exercise a day in the yard where he cares for the small tree.
		Hussein is kept apart from his former henchmen in the camp, who mingle more freely, playing cards, backgammon, and chess to relieve the monotony of prison life, Amin said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/08/08/hussein146s_new_regime_behind_bars?pg=full (880 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Camp Cropper is where "high value detainees" are imprisoned, such as scientists and government officials, as revealed by former defence intelligence officer Rod Barton last week.
		They include the small, isolated cells which amounted to prisoners being kept in solitary confinement; the disorientation process where a prisoner has a hessian bag tied over his head for two days; also prisoners with cuts and abrasions — when he asked how they came about he was told the prisoner had "resisted arrest".
		Mr Barton was told the death of senior scientist Mohammed Hamdi Azmirli at Camp Cropper in February 2004 was from a brain tumour.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve05/1216torture.html (628 words)

	Fisk: The ugly truth of America's Camp Cropper, a story to shame us all
		Amnesty International turned up in Baghdad yesterday to investigate, as well as Saddam's monstrous crimes, the mass detention centre run by the Americans at Baghdad international airport in which up to 2,000 prisoners live in hot, airless tents.
		Yesterday, Amnesty was forbidden permission to visit Camp Cropper.
		Now there probably are some assassins in Camp Cropper.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4191.htm (709 words)

	Rumsfeld ordered Iraqi suspect held as 'ghost' prisoner / Detainee not listed on prison rolls at CIA's request
		The Pentagon's chief spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita, said Wednesday night that officials at Camp Cropper, where about 100 detainees deemed to have the highest intelligence value are held, questioned their superiors up the chain of command several times in recent months about what to do with the suspect.
		Pentagon and intelligence officials gave new details Wednesday about the prisoner and the circumstances that took him to Camp Cropper, including the fact that his status was decided personally by Tenet and Rumsfeld, and approved by a number of senior military officers.
		At Camp Cropper, some prisoners had been held since June 2003 for nearly 23 hours a day in solitary confinement in small concrete cells without sunlight, according to a report by the international Red Cross.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/17/MNGMV77EJ71.DTL (956 words)

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