Developments in Iraq 5/20/04

President Bush told an Iraqi newspaper in an interview that America intends to get to the bottom of the scandal over mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners so that the "whole world" will know who was responsible.

President Bush said he anticipates a selection in the next two weeks of the president and top ministers of the Iraqi government. He reaffirmed his commitment to transfer power to the new government on June 30.

Gen. Abizaid said he may need more than the 135,000 troops already in Iraq once political control is handed back to the Iraqis because the insurgency is likely to grow even more violent then.

The U.S. military accused fighters loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr of firing on American forces from one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines -- the Imam Hussein shrine in the center of Karbala.

American troops and militiamen fought near another holy site in Karbala, the Imam Abbas shrine.

A group linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility for Monday's car bomb assassination of the Iraqi Governing Council president.

Militiamen fired two mortar rounds at a U.S. convoy in Najaf, but missed their target, injuring two boys and three other civilians, witnesses reported.