Under the oil resolution, none of the money would go into Iraqi hands.

Once the security situation is stabilized, increasing responsibility for security should be transferred into Iraqi hands.

In the final analysis, American officers say, much is in Iraqi hands.

They said discussions had begun last week, following the transfer of all the government ministries back into Iraqi hands.

Government officials were interested in knowing whether any critical American secrets had fallen into Iraqi hands and how those leaks could be plugged.

The city of Basra, apart from its airport, remains in Iraqi hands.

The academy is the headquarters of the American effort to transfer responsibility for Iraq's internal security into Iraqi hands.

But how much of the marshes can be restored might be out of Iraqi hands.

The resolution, he said, "puts the permanence" of the multinational force "clearly in Iraqi hands."

I'd like to see all the reins of power placed in Iraqi hands.