F-NATION/WORLD Iraqi prison !e-*m camp shut down by U.S. forces BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military has shut down Camp Cropper, an increasingly notorious makeshift prison where hundreds of Iraqis were crowded into tents through Baghdad's scorching summer, a U.S. official reported yesterday. The detainees were scattered to other facilities. The Iraqi Lawyers League, pressing a rights campaign under an ex-political prisoner of the Baath regime, has won another concession from the Ameri- cans as well: accelerated hearings, with lawyers, for some of at least 5,500 detained Iraqis. That newly elected league president, Malik Dohan al-Hassan, met with U.S. occupation chief L. Paul Bremer a month ago to register complaints about the internment of thousands of Iraqis without charge since a U.S.-British invasion force toppled Saddam Hus- sein's Baath government in April. "I told Bremer the Americans and the Iraqi people ought to have become friends since then, but the way they have handled these things has produced just the opposite effect," Malik said. Journalists were barred from Camp Cropper, but released detainees this summer told of overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, and they alleged physical abuse by guards. The human rights group Amnesty Interna- tional protested it "may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, banned by internation- al law." The camp population included both Iraqis picked up for allegedly commit- ting common crimes, and so-called "security detainees," mainly Baathists deemed to be a threat to the security of the occupation force. "They are living in tents in the desert, in a very hot climate. Some detainees are sick," said Malik, inter- viewed yesterday before the closing of the camp was disclosed. The former law professor and Iraqi information minister, who was himself imprisoned for 1 1/2 years by the Baathists after they seized power in 1968, also complained that lawyers were not allowed into the heavily guarded airport. "That was another reason why we closed the airport (camp)," said U.S. Army Col. Ralph Sabatino, who spe- cializes in detainee issues and is a chief liaison with the interim Iraqi Justice Ministry. Sabatino said Cropper was shut down last Wednesday, on Bremer's orders, and its several hundred inmates were transferred to at least three Bagh- dad-area prisons. Cropper held as many,as 1,200 detainees this summer, Sabatino said. "It wasn't supposed to be a detention center" but a temporary holding facili- ty, he said. "It was designed for 250 people. When it grew to 500 to 700, it got very crowded. It had a very bad reputation, appropriately." The Army Reserve officer, in civil- ian life an assistant corporation coun- sel for the City of New York, said he met with Lawyers League representa- tives two weeks ago. "Since that time we've coordinated to facilitate their representation of people in custody," he said. Ignacio Rubio, a Spanish judge assigned to Bremer's Coalition Provi- sional Authority, is developing a pro- gram to assign court-appointed attorneys to represent detainees who will be charged at a kind of prelimi- nary hearing under Iraqi law. 6 A P A RT ME NT H OM E S Affordable! 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartment Homes NEWS IN BRIEF. HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD tr. . WASHINGTON . . Leads suggest weapons presence in Iraq Weapons hunters in Iraq are following leads that point to the presence of anthrax and Scud missiles still hidden in the country, the chief searcher said yesterday. David Kay told Congress last week that his survey team had not found nuclear, biological or chemical weapons so far. But he argued against drawing conclu- sions, saying he expects to provide a full picture on Iraq's weapons programs in six months to nine months. Critics, including many in Congress, say Kay's findings do not support most of the Bush administration's prewar assertions that the United States faced an immi- nent, serious threat from Iraq's then-president, Saddam Hussein, because of wide- spread and advanced Iraqi weapons programs. President Bush has said the U.S.-led war on Iraq was justified despite the fail- ure to find weapons. Kay reported that searchers found a vial of live botulinum bacteria that had been stored in an Iraqi scientist's refrigerator since 1993. The bacteria make botu- linum toxin, which can be used as a biological weapon, but Kay has offered no evidence that the bacteria had been used in a weapons program. The live bacteria was among a collection of "reference strains" of biological organisms that could not be used to produce biological warfare agents. MAHACLA Russia Chechens head to polls amid chaos of war Battered by a decade of war and chaos, residents of Chechnya voted for a presi- dent yesterday in an election that the Kremlin bills as a significant step toward sta- bility but that even the likely winner says won't bring peace for years. The voting comes four years after Russian forces returned to Chechnya in a massive air and ground assault that brought the northern flatlands under control quickly, but then stalled in the southern mountains. For most of the last four years, the conflict has been a bloody stalemate in which the Russians pound Chechen rebels with heavy weaponry and the insurgents draw blood daily with bombs, ambushes and hit-and-run attacks. Election officials were the first to vote as 426 polling stations across the region opened yesterday morning, NTV television reported. At least 30 per- cent of the region's 561,000 registered voters must cast ballots for the elec- tion to be valid. Chechen Prime Minister Anatoly Popov said the situation had been calm the night before the election and expressed confidence that residents would participate. I MERCED, Calif. Schwarzenegger refutes allegations Arnold Schwarzenegger went on the attack Saturday, denouncing the latest sexual harassment allegations made against him and charging that all the 1 1th-hour accusations were intended to wreck his campaign for governor. "The last accusations that I read today are absolutely untrue," Schwarzenegger said during a stop near Clovis. "They're trying to torpedo my campaign. They're trying to make me look bad out there so that people vote no." But Schwarzenegger, who admitted Thursday that he had treated some women badly in the past, also referred to past behavior Saturday, saying he will work to convince voters that "this is a different Arnold." The action star also' said that "the environment in today's pol- itics is totally different on the subject of women, it is much more sensitive today." He added that he will be "extra careful... even if there is any move from a female on my part." DAA NOOR, Afghanistan Afghan drug trade deters aid workers Afghanistan's $1.2 billion drug trade is blooming, bringing violence that is driv- ing away aid groups even as Islamic extremists and warlords allegedly profit. The agencies that monitor the pulse of conflict zones point to a rise in ambushes and execution-style slayings that coincide with the southeast's autumn harvest of the opium-producing flora, the source of heroin. "The revenue from the poppy trade in Afghanistan is more than all the humani- tarian aid combined," said Paul Barker, country director for the charity CARE. Nations have committed roughly $500 million to rebuild this central Asian nation of dusty, gasp-inducing deserts and monolithic mountains. 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