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Canada would not hand Iraqi leader to U.S. Orders from Ottawa in case of capture Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief National Post Wednesday, April 09, 2003 OTTAWA - The Canadian in command of a multinational naval task force in the Persian Gulf said yesterday that the federal government has ordered him not to hand over any Iraqis he captures to the United States, including even Saddam Hussein and his two sons. Commodore Roger Girouard, the head of the nine-nation Task Force 151, said Ottawa has said he is allowed to turn over any al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists to U.S. forces....

HALIFAX (CP) - HMCS Iroquois has arrived in the Persian Gulf, allowing the Canadian commodore overseeing a multinational task force to finally take control of his command-and- control vessel. The ship, which left Halifax on March 5, was to take over from HMCS Montreal as the main centre of operations for Commodore Roger Girouard, who is leading the force involved in the fight against terrorism. "The commodore should be transferring from Montreal to Iroquois any time now. That should take one day or two," Maj. Richard Saint-Louis said from Operation Apollo's central command in Tampa, Fla. He would not reveal...