Iraq: deadly force used on rioters in US Prison

Reuters reports that the US military is being chided for excessive use of force in the quelling of a riot in Camp Bucca, the detention facility near the Kuwaiti border. Earlier reports stated that Camp Bucca would be expanded to allow for the closing of Abu Ghraib. The riot and the killings beg the question of whether the US can manage the detention of so many suspected "insurgents" and common criminals in one place.

The riot broke out at Camp Bucca, near the Kuwaiti border, where over 5,000 suspected insurgents are housed at the U.S. military's main prison camp in Iraq.

Prisoners began throwing rocks and fashioning weapons after a routine search of one of the camp's 10 compounds, the U.S. military said. Violence then spread to three other compounds.

Troops shot dead four men in a riot which involved hundreds of detainees, the U.S. military said. Six people were injured, five of them by guards. Three of the wounded were taken to a military hospital where they were in a stable condition.