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Iraqi prisons have fewer than 30 Saudi detainees, US official say : Middle East World

Iraqi prisons have fewer than 30 Saudi detainees, US official say : Middle East World
Riyadh - Fewer than 30 Saudi detainees remain in Iraqi prisons, the general in charge of Iraq's Detainee Operations, Douglas M. Stone, was quoted as saying Thursday. Stone told the Saudi al-Watan newspaper that US forces had already handed over some 20 Saudi prisoners to Riyadh, as part of a security cooperation treaty between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

"We actively work along with the Saudi government to facilitate the process of sending the detainees back to their countries," Stone was quoted as saying in al-Watan.

At least 200 detainees from Arab countries are arrested in US prisons, said Stone - some 24 per cent of them Egyptians, and 23 per cent Syrians.

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