Rice: Saddam's Army to Be in New Forces

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraq's new government plans to use former members of Saddam Hussein's army in the security forces after the transfer of political control from the U.S.-led coalition, President Bush's national security adviser said Sunday.

"But the Iraqis want everyone to know, and indeed the Iraqi government continues to say, that while they want to invite some trained personnel back, they are as concerned as everybody that people with blood on their hands not be brought back," Condoleezza Rice said.

"They recognize that the future of Iraq cannot be built on the pillars of the worst of the old Baath Party," she told "Fox News Sunday" from Turkey, where Bush was attending a NATO summit.

The top U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, decided in May 2003 to disband the Army, a move that interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi now says was a mistake.

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