U.S. hands over Hezbollah prisoner to Iraq
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BAGHDAD — The U.S. military handed over its last and most controversial prisoner to the Iraqi government ahead of the final departure of the last few thousand U.S. troops in the coming days, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.
The prisoner, Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior member of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement suspected in the killings of five U.S. soldiers in 2007, was transferred to Iraqi custody early Friday morning after the Obama administration "sought and received assurances that he will be tried for his crimes," according to Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council in Washington.
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