More Iraqis to be released from the American jails
Iraq, Politics, 2/18/2006

A senior Iraqi official said that one among four Iraqi women detained by the American forces will be shortly released, adding that some 1500 Iraqi prisoners will be released every month.

The Iraqi deputy premier Abd Mutlaq al-Jabouri said that the detained woman who will be released shortly is from Tel-Afer near Musil, north of Iraq, noting that a second woman detainee was brought to an Iraqi court where she is to be tried and then taken to an Iraqi women prison.

Al-Jabbouri added that the two other detained women's trial was postponed, considering that the release of the detained Iraqi women will facilitat the release of foreign hostages.

He stressed that a special committee in charge of investigating maltreatment issues by the ministry of interior will submit its report to the government together with what was concluded since the beginning of January, 2006.

Simultaneously the Iraqi ministry of interior announced opening an investigation on what was stated that "death squads" belonging to the police is carrying out killing and kidnapping operations especially against the Arab Sunni.

The Chicago Tribune had attributed to one American general as saying that his country's forces have evidence that there is a death squad belonging to the Iraqi ministry interior composed of 22 persons who were appointed as being members in the external police squads.

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