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...Iraq's robot...
Thousands of 30-lb. backpackable remote-controlled or "tele-operated" robots with infrared and electro-optical cameras are already clearing caves, buildings and other potential enemy locations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But two new robots are at the front of the autonomous revolution: the MULE and the SMSS. (See a gallery of robots...
...high chain fences reinforced with rebar and rimmed by razor wire that encircle the so-called "Waterfront" compound at Camp Bucca. It's different from the other compounds in this sprawling 100-acre, open-air U.S detention center close to the Kuwaiti border, the largest in Iraq, which houses a little over 10,000 of the 13,832 detainees currently in U.S custody. In other compounds hundreds of detainees mingle in expansive recreation yards, enjoy access to books, television and chess sets, and aren't locked in at night. There is noise from those sectors; the sound emanating from...
...detainees per container, and up to 40 are allowed into one of the many recreation yards at any one time. "These guys are bad guys; they're the worst of the worst," says Brigadier General David Quantock, the commander of Task Force 134 which oversees the detention system in Iraq. He walks past a handful of detainees playing table tennis. "These are the guys the Iraqi government wants." (See pictures of the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib detainee scandal...
...hold them on warrants or charge them under Iraqi law. Otherwise the new U.S-Iraqi security pact that came into effect in January demands that they be released. "Before, if we felt that we had a good basis to believe the individual was an imperative risk to the security of Iraq, that was good enough," says Quantock. "After 1 January [of this year], it is not." (See pictures from inside Guantanamo...