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Some Iraqi Prisoners Released from Abu Ghraib

The U.S. military releases more than 300 Iraqi detainees from the Abu Ghraib prison -- the center of a prisoner-abuse scandal. The release comes a day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq and toured the prison. Hear NPR's Peter Kenyon.

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Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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