'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
The United States handed over the last detention facility under its control to Iraqi authorities on Thursday, a milestone in Iraq's push for complete sovereignty seven years after the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
The United States handed over the last detention facility under its control to Iraqi authorities on Thursday, a milestone in Iraq's push for complete sovereignty seven years after the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
He said they would eventually be handed over to the Iraqi government before American forces pull out of the country entirely by the end of next year.
"There is overwhelming evidence they are equipped, prepared and poised to take over," Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon said, stressing that the detainees still being held by the U.S. were under Iraqi jurisdiction.
