| Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi force arrested 16 persons in central Kut city while they were handing out a release issued by Shiite cleric Sayyid Mahmoud al-Hassani al-Sarkhi, a security source from Wassit province said on Sunday. "The release, which was about the Iraqi-U.S. security pact, contained a demand to the U.S. president-elect to end the occupation in Iraq," the source told Aswat al-Iraq. "It also demands Iraqi officials to release the pact to the public to enable them to learn about its details," he added. |