Some of the small number of prisoners who remained in the jail after the Americans left said they had pleaded to go with their departing captors, rather than be left in the hands of Iraqi guards.

"The Americans were better than the Iraqis. They treated us better," said Khalid Alaani, who was held on suspicion of involvement in Sunni terrorism.
One of my old teachers was a former Syrian Prison Guard. When Abu Graib came out he luaghed and hung the paper in his room. I remember one day a girl asked him why he thought it was funny. He replied "Because, thats not torture". So yeah, I just wanted to share that.