] U.S. authorities released 293 prisoners Friday from the ] prison near Baghdad, the first mass prisoner release ] since images of abuse at the hands of the U.S. military ] surfaced several weeks ago. ] ] {snip} ] ] About a week ago, there were about 3,800 prisoners at Abu ] Ghraib. The new U.S. commander of detention operations in ] Iraq, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, said he plans to reduce ] that number to somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000. Wow. Halliburton's contractors must be scared even more shitless. |