U.S. Wants Quick Handover of Its Prisons in Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will hand control over military prisons in Iraq to a new Baghdad government as quickly as possible, U.S. officials said on Tuesday as senators questioned plans for the upcoming transition of power in the wake of the prison abuse scandal.

But Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said there was no timetable for transfer of the prisons, where sexual humiliation and physical abuse by U.S. forces have sparked international outrage.

"I would have thought that this government would put some time into this, especially with what we've just been through the last two weeks," Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska told a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Few details emerged at the hearing about the process for handing sovereignty to the Iraqis on June 30, as Washington consults further with its allies and awaits United Nations recommendations on the process.


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getting rid of the evidence, is there???

:eyes:

and it seems to me that we're just going around in circles.

Wolfowitz contested a report in The New Yorker magazine this week that abuse of Iraqi prisoners grew out of a secret plan approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to toughen interrogation methods to fight a growing insurgency.

"We are trying to find out what, if any, possible truth could have led to that story. I'm aware of nothing that would substantiate that," he said. "

I think its time to put the hammer down, instead of dancing.