BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S.-led administration wants to speed up creation of an Iraqi tribunal to try detained Saddam Hussein loyalists for crimes against humanity and human rights abuses, a senior official said on Sunday.
U.S. civil administrator for Iraq Paul Bremer has asked his staff to accelerate the process of forming a tribunal, Jeremy Greenstock, Britain's special representative in Iraq, told Reuters.
"We can't hold these people in detention for an unreasonable length of time," Greenstock said of the several thousand Iraqis in U.S. custody, including 40 of the 55 most wanted officials of Saddam's former Baathist regime.
The top officials have been held largely incommunicado, apart from visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in what human rights activists call a legal limbo.
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