Meanwhile, many Sunni Iraqis are expressing outrage after the acquittal of two Shiite officials accused of running death squads. The Shiites were both former high-ranking Health Ministry officials. They were the first suspected Shiite death squad leaders to face prosecution. The men were freed from US custody on Wednesday, two days after an Iraqi court dropped kidnapping, murder and corruption charges against them. The Sunni-led Iraqi Islamic Party said the acquittal was a grave setback in the history of the Iraqi judiciary system.