it wasn t just crowded, it was violent. in 2005, riots broke out. detainees went on a rampage, taking over whole sections of the prison camp. american forces massed outside the fences, firing into the crowd. at least four prisoners were killed. now, this is camp bucca. major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving cnn s nic robertson a tour in 2008. we have about 2,000 identified al qaeda in the facility. they re very hard to break. you have shields up here to protect us. everyone is crowded around looking at us now. this is not a place that you want to hang around. we don t want to stand here that much longer because they will now organize around us.
this is camp bucca, an american prison. during the iraq war, the most dangerous jihadis were locked up here, up to 20,000 of the country s angriest men. some americans who worked at camp bucca called it simply camp hell. it wasn t just crowded, it was violent. in 2005, riots broke out. detainees went on a rampage, taking over whole sections of the prison camp. american forces massed outside the fences, firing into the crowds. at least four prisoners were killed. now, this is camp bucca. reporter: major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving cnn s nic robertson a tour in 2008. we have about 2,000 identified al qaeda here in the theater internment facility. they re very hard to break. you have shields up here to protect us. everyone down here is crowded around, looking at us now. right. but this is not a place that you want to hang around. we don t want to stand here that
here. up to 20,000 of the country s angriest men. some of the men that worked at camp bucca called it simply camp hell. it wasn t just crowded, it was violent. in 2005 riots broke out. detainees wint on a rampage, take went on a rampage, taking over whole sections of the camp. they massed outside the fences firing into the crowd. at least four prisoners were killed. now, this is camp bucca. major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving cnn s nick robertson a tour in 2008. we got about 2,000 identified al qaeda here in the theater
country s angriest men. some americans who worked at camp bucca, called it simply camp hell. it wasn t just crowded, it was violent in 2005, riots broke out. detainees took over whole sections of the prison can t. american forces masks outside the fences firing into the crowds. at least four prisoners were killed. now, this is camp bucca. major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was weary of the inmates. here he is giving nic robertson a tour in 2008. we have about 2000 identified al qaeda here in the theater.
now, this is camp bucca. major general doug stone was brought in to fix camp bucca. even he was wary of the inmates. here he is giving cnn s nic robertson a tour in 2008. we have about 2,000 identified al qaeda in the facility. they re very hard to break. you have shields up here to protect us. everyone is crowded around looking at us now. this is not a place that you want to hang around. we don t want to stand here that much longer because they will now organize around us. there were beatings, unexplained prisoner deaths, and several dangerous jihadis escaped. into this cauldron, one day in early 2004, a new man arrived. we know him now as abu bakr al