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/ 27 June 2006

Abu Ghraib detainees freed through amnesty plan

About 450 detainees were released from Iraqi and United States-run prisons on Tuesday under a reconciliation plan aimed at bringing insurgents into the political process and ending the deadly tide of bloodshed in Iraq. But at least 21 people were killed a day after dozens died in a wave of violence, including 22 people blown up by a motorbike bomb.