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Camp Bucca, Iraq

Camp Bucca is an American run internment facility in Southern Iraq near Basra and outside of Umm Qasr near the Kuwait border, the larges internment facility in Iraq. This series of photographs are from a trip to Camp Bucca in December 2008 to accompany a story on the New Jersey National Guard's deployment.

New Jersey National Guardsman Spec. Juan Solano, of Newark, searches a detainee as the detainee leaves the compound at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
   
New Jersey National Guardsman Cpl. David Dundas, of Sayerville, keeps watch from a guard tower over a detention compound at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
   
Camp Bucca detainees watch a detainee soccer game as members of the New Jersey National Guard patrol the compound at night in the Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
     
  
Detainee family members wait in line to meet with their family members who are being held at the Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
   
An Iraqi family waits to visit with a family member who is being held at the Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca, Iraq. Detainees are allowed to visit with family several times a year.
   
Iraqi boys smile as they are reunited with their father, who is a detainee at Camp Bucca, Iraq at the visitation center.
     
  
A distraught woman sits in the back of the Camp Bucca, Iraq visitation center while waiting to visit with a family member at the Theater Internment Facility.
   
New Jersey National Guardsman Spec. Camilo Ojeda, of Paterson, patrols a compound at Camp Bucca in Southern Iraq.
   
New Jersey National Guardsman PFC Jamal Parker, of Rahway, waits his turn on the bench press while working out at the Camp Bucca, Iraq gym after working his shift as a detainee guard.
     
  
Sgt. Shawn Lehman, of Wichita, Kansas, does a handstand while working at a detainee compound in the Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca.
  
New Jersey National Guardsman PFC David Monllor, of Haskell, chats with people at home while on his laptop in his room at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
   
Detainee's in one of the compounds at Camp Bucca, Iraq meet for a morning prayer session. Members of the New Jersey National Guard are responsible for guarding this compound at the Theater Internment Facility.