More than 10,000 detainees released in Iraq (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sat, 08/02/2008 - 6:39am

People burn a symbolic U.S. flag in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.<br /><br />An Associated Press tally showed some 10 U.S. troop deaths during July 2008, the lowest figure since the war began more than five years ago.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year — more than in all of 2007 — as it continues to try phase out its running of Iraqi prisons.




 

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