Fort Suse

Fort Suse is the name of an Iraqi military barracks and training facility built in 1977 by Russian engineers. Fort Suse is located in Kurdistan region of Iraq Iraq in the vicinity of Al-Sulamaniya.

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 20th Engineer Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division Military Police, 101st Airborne Brigade Troops Battalion, and Task Force 134. Task Force 134 is in charge of all Multi-National Force Iraq (MNFI) detention operations in Iraq. Conversion of the fort to a detention facility, coupled with the expansion of existing facilities at Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper was part of a plan to alleviate over crowding at existing facilities, close the detention facility at Abu Ghraib and to eventually transition detention operations to the Iraqi government.