April 7, 2003	Monday	Safar 4, 1424

WASHINGTON, April 6: The Pentagon said on Sunday a handover of power to a new Iraqi government would take more than six months.

“It will probably will take more time than that,” Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Fox News when asked if he expected the US-led coalition would be able to transfer power to a new Iraqi administration within six months of winning the war.

“We have had an experience in northern Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s forces were pushed out of that part of the country in early april 1991 by a coalition force that included US, British, and several other European countries,” he said.—AFP