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[Judi Lynn]

(snip) On Wednesday, U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer announced that authorities would release 506 of some 12,800 detainees in a goodwill gesture. He said the first 100 would be freed from Abu Ghraib on Thursday and the others over coming weeks from detention camps all over the country.

But a spokesman for the 800th Military Police brigade, the U.S. Army unit operating prisons in Iraq, said they had not received any order to release prisoners. "Until we get some information that says 'release these prisoners,' they are staying put," said a spokesman, Lt. Col. Roy Shere.

U.S. and coalition troops have rounded up thousands of people suspected of attacks or of funding the anti-American insurgency in Iraq.

From first light, people started arriving at the prison, some driving for hours in hopes that relatives arrested in raids and not seen for months would be among those released.
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Really, really sad.