ICRC demands investigation into Iraqi prison riot

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) demanded an investigation into a riot at the US-run Camp Bucca prison camp in southern Iraq.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi general was kidnapped in Baghdad and the US military announced the deaths of four of its troops, while the country's splintered Sunni Arab community quarreled over a vice presidential candidate.

"We are asking the US army to investigate the cause of the riot which happened at the detention centre" Camp Bucca, Rana Sidani, spokeswoman for the ICRC, told AFP.

The US military announced early Tuesday that 12 Iraqi prisoners and four US prison guards were wounded when inmates rioted at Camp Bucca Friday, torching tents and hurling rocks in Iraq's largest US-run detention centre....