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The Abu Ghraib prison is located in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km west of Baghdad. It was built by British contractors in the 1960s and covers 280 acres (1.15 kmē) with a total of 24 guard towers. It became internationally known as a place where Saddam Hussein's government tortured and executed dissidents and, later, as the site of abuse of Iraqi suspects by the United States military...
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