Allawi: The Americans will hand over Saddam Hussein after authority transfer

The new Iraqi prime minister Eyad Allawi said that the US will hand over all Iraqis detained by it, including the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to the provisional Iraqi government after handing over the authority on June 30th.

The New Iraqi minister of justice Malik Dohan al-Hassan, for his part, stressed he will call for bringing back the death penalty ( suspended by the Americans in April of 2003) after the transfer of authority to the new government, noting that this might be applicable on Saddam Hussein.