Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/camp-nama-iraq-human-rights-abuses?INTCMP=SRCH



Detainees were taken to Camp Nama, a secret US detention centre at Baghdad international airport.

Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad
Ian Cobain
guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 April 2013 13.04 EDT

British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to occur in Iraq after the invasion have, for the first time, spoken about abuses they witnessed there.

Personnel from two RAF squadrons and one Army Air Corps squadron were given guard and transport duties at the secret prison, the Guardian has established.

And many of the detainees were brought to the facility by snatch squads formed from Special Air Service and Special Boat Service squadrons.

Codenamed Task Force 121, the joint US-UK special forces unit was at first deployed to detain individuals thought to have information about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Once it was realised that Saddam's regime had long since abandoned its WMD programme, TF 121 was re-tasked with tracking down people who might know where the deposed dictator and his loyalists might be, and then with catching al-Qaida leaders who sprang up in the country after the regime collapsed.