Abu Ghraib
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- See also: Abu Ghraib prison and Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
Image:Iraq map Abu Ghraib.png The city of Abu Ghraib (BGN: Abū Ghurayb; أبو غريب in Arabic) in Iraq is located 20 km (12 miles) west of Baghdad just north of the Baghdad International Airport. It has between 750,000 and 1.5 million inhabitants. The old road to Jordan passes through Abu Ghraib. The government of Iraq created the Abu-Ghraib district in 1944.
The city is the site of Abu Ghraib prison which was the site of abuse and executions of political dissidents under Saddam Hussein and the abuse of prisoners by members of the United States Army Reserve in 2003 during the US occupation of Iraq.
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