Sunday, December 21, 2008

Status of Detained Iraqis Is Murky Amid Talk Of A Political Showdown

From The New York Times:

BAGHDAD — A day after Iraq’s interior minister said that all of his officers who had been arrested in a security crackdown were to be released, their status remained unclear on Saturday.

A senior adviser to the minister, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that some of the ministry detainees had been released Saturday and that others would be released Sunday.

But the Interior Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, told the news service Agence France-Presse that all the ministry detainees, reported earlier to be 24 people, were freed on Saturday morning.

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