Satisfaction for the closing down of the Abu Ghraib jail and hope that the convicts’ conditions will improve have been expressed today to SIR by the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, the Chaldean Shlemon Warduni. "Every decision taken in the interest of Iraq and its people is welcome states the prelate -. The decision to close down the jail of horror is a good one. What happened in that place is not worthy of a civil nation, which wants to be and claims to be democratic. Shameful acts have been committed there, unrespectful of human dignity. Those who commit such abuse cannot call themselves Christians". In the next three months, the 4,500 convicts of Abu Ghraib will be moved to Camp Cropper. The time it takes to end the erection of new buildings to be added to the existing ones, which now host 127 convicts, including Saddam Hussein. "We hope this relocation will means an improvement in the conditions of imprisonment of the convicts", concludes mgr. Warduni, who just early this week had found himself involved, without willing to, in a gunfight, with no injures or damage. "I was really scared he told but, as the people who rescued me told me, as they helped me out of my car, the Virgin and this Christ you bear on your chest have saved your life. Said by Muslim brothers, this really made me happy".
