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The New York Times: Iraq Seeks Custody of Hussein; Bush Has Security Concerns, Auditors Testify About Waste In Iraq Contracts ("Multibillion-dollar Pentagon contracts to support military operations and reconstruction in Iraq have been plagued by "inadequate planning and inadequate oversight," the government's chief budget investigator told Congress on Tuesday, citing management deficiencies that have fostered waste and cost overruns."), Sierra Leone War Crimes Court Hears First Witness ("His identity concealed behind a walled witness stand, a sobbing 52-year-old watch repairman opened testimony in the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone by describing how he was tortured and his brother beheaded during a raid by the notorious pro-government militia called the Kamajors. In his opening statement, Sam Hinga Norman, above, a former government minister who headed the Kamajors during the country's decade-long civil war, said the court had no jurisdiction over him. He and two other militia leaders are the court's first defendants.").

USA Today: U.S. Unlikely To Hand Over Saddam Soon: Bush Concerned About Iraqi Security, Army Chief Gives Sobering Review of War On Terror: General Says Fight Will Last A Lifetime.

The Washington Post: U.S. May Cede Legal Custody of Hussein ("The United States intends to transfer legal custody of former president Saddam Hussein to Iraq's interim government if asked by the country's new prime minister, the administrator of the U.S. occupation, L. Paul Bremer, said Tuesday. But Bremer indicated that the U.S. military would continue to retain physical custody of Hussein until the Iraqi government has an appropriate detention facility to hold him."), Prison Tactics A Longtime Dilemma For Israel: Nation Faced Similar Problems as Abu Ghraib, Top Iraqi Official Objects To Treatment as POW.