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U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Jails to Iraqis

HeadlineDec 27, 2005

In other Iraq news, the U.S. is refusing to hand over control of its jails to the Iraqi government. The U.S. military commander in charge of those prisons told the New York Times that Iraqi jailers must “meet the standards we define and that we are using today.”

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