Abu Ghraib To Turn Over To Iraqi Authorities Within Three Months.

Source: AP News via Yahoo News

The prison made famous for photos of U.S. soldiers torturing (sometimes sexually abusing) people captured in Iraq will be handed over to the new "democracy" of Iraq in 3 months.

BAGHDAD, Iraq--The U.S. military will leave the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and turn it over to Iraqi authorities after a new detention facility is completed in some three months, the U.S. command said.

Once the U.S. moves detainees to the new prison at Camp Cropper and other facilities, Abu Ghraib will be returned to Iraqi prison authorities, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad.

"Abu Ghraib prison is in a region that has been susceptible to attacks and it is difficult to support logistically, so there has always been the intention the move detainees to a more secure location," Johnson said. "There are other associations with Abu Ghraib that are more emotional, but the primary reason for us has always been security."

Trying to hide the evidence...that sounds like a more plausible reason, right, fellows?