Fort Suse is an

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installation located in the Kurdistan region of Iraq in the vicinity of Al-Sulamaniya. It was built in 1977 by

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n engineers as a barracks and training facility, but now serves as a prison.

Use as a detention facility

In 2005, the fort was converted from a once United Nations demining facility to a detention facility capable of holding 1,700–2,000 security detainees at a cost of $8 million. The conversion was done using civilian contractors under the supervision of the

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, 82nd Airborne Division Military Police, 101st Airborne Brigade Troops Battalion, and Task Force 134. Task Force 134 is in charge of all

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(MNF-I) detention operations in Iraq. Conversion of the fort to a detention facility, coupled with the expansion of existing facilities at

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and

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was part of a plan to alleviate over crowding at existing facilities, close the detention facility at

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