[Dean's World] Dave Price: Cleaning Up the Iraqi Police

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Posted by Dave Price:
Cleaning Up the Iraqi Police
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1159984060.shtml


   It's going to be a long, messy job -- but it has [1]begun.

     BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities have taken a brigade of up to 700
     policemen out of service and put members under investigation for
     "possible complicity" with death squads following a mass kidnapping
     earlier this week, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
     ...
     The action appeared aimed at signaling a new seriousness in
     tackling police collusion with militias at a time when the
     government is under increased pressure to put an end to the
     Shiite-Sunni violence that has killed thousands this year and
     threatened to tear Iraq apart.
     ...
     The Iraqi Interior Ministry said Tuesday that the commander of the
     unit, a lieutenant colonel, had been detained for investigation and
     the major general who commands the battalion that includes the
     brigade had been suspended temporarily and ordered transferred.

   It's not surprising that Shia are taking revenge for the relentless
   Sunni bombings, but the state officials have to be above that fight if
   they're going to have any credibility as a unity government.
   As with much in Iraq, this is a work in progress.

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=A86.I1vC8SNFSFcAgxVX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl