Camp Cropper

Camp Cropper was a maximum security prison in the Victory Base Complex near the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, which was operated by the U.S. Army.

In contrast to the well-known Abu Ghraib prison from the media far fewer prisoners were housed in this prison. There are mainly prisoners who are very valuable opinion of the U.S. government, for example up to his execution, the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

In June 2004, the Ministry of Defense of the United States had confirmed a report in the New York Times, after which the then-CIA Director George Tenet permission from U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got to secretly detain a prisoner at Camp Cropper. The International Committee of the Red Cross was unable to control his condition, contrary to the Geneva Conventions. Rumsfeld later claimed that the prisoner had been treated humanely.

In the summer of 2010, the property was handed over to the Iraqi government and renamed " Karkh Prison ".