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| U.S. wants quick handover of Iraq prisons |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 05/19/2004 |
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The United States will hand over control of 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 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 abuse and sexual humiliation 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 said at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. With Congress still reeling after last week's viewing of 1,600 photographs of abuses, another Senate committee prepared to question top U.S. generals in Iraq on the issue at an open hearing on Wednesday. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, a Virginia Republican, said he also wanted to question the U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and others. He also requested the Pentagon's legal reviews and documents of "harsh approaches" on detainee interrogations. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, a California Republican, blasted Warner's plans. Hunter, appearing on C-SPAN, said it was "a mistake" to pull out operational leaders "and deprive their troops of their leadership so that the Senate can have a lot of publicity." |
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