Camp Bucca is a filter camp opened by the US administration in occupied Iraq to detain various groups of prisoners (many of them were held without charge). It existed from 2003 to 2009 [1] in the vicinity of the Iraqi city of Umm Qasr . One of the camp commandants was Colonel Kenneth King. In total, up to 26 thousand prisoners went through the camp. In 2005, a riot took place in the camp [2] . Subsequently turned into a logistics center.
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The camp was named after the American firefighter Ronald Bucca, who died on September 11, 2001 in New York. In the press, the camp became known as the “ISIS incubator”, since the nine top leaders [3] of the Islamic State (including the future caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , as well as his deputies Abu Muslim at-Turkmani and Abu Ayman al-Iraqi ) [4] at the Bucca camp.