US to free 506 Iraqi prisoners from detention

Iraq’s US-led administration will release 506 prisoners from detention camps in a show of good will, while simultaneously offering bounties for 30 more Iraqis wanted in the anti-American insurgency, the top US official in Iraq said today.

Coalition officials said the releases – out of some 12,800 detainees – are also aimed at fostering intelligence tips, which they said have surged in the three weeks since the capture of Saddam Hussein.