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| Iraq |
| The Iraqi police doing their job |
| 2003-11-15 |
| SALAHUDDIN - Iraqi police are uncovering one planned attack after another every day in the central Iraqi region of Salahuddin, a governorate that includes Tikrit and Baiji. For Major General Mazhar Taha Aljuburi, the Police Commander of the Salahuddin governorate, who is charged with developing intelligence on the area, that’s good news and bad. The bad news is that the number of bombs being found is growing with each day. The good news is that the network of informants that Iraqi police have been building for the last two months is uncovering most of them. "We now have good information about the resistance action in our area and we are beginning to limit their abilities," said Aljuburi. "Every day we discover a new resistance operation. For example, [last Wednesday] we discovered six landmines on the Tikrit -Kirkuk road, three more on the road between Baiji and Mosul, and two mines inside the Baiji area." Aljuburi claims the recent success is down to the creation of two governorate special offices in September who collect information on followers of the former regime, coordinated from headquarters and staffed by only the most able police officers. "We elect the clever members to work in [the special offices] and to collect the information which we need. In addition to getting important information to the police, they must also coordinate with the local tribal Sheikhs." I posted a good section of the article because the source has a habit of making the articles subscription only after they’ve been up for a short period of time. |
| Posted by:Damn_Proud_American |
| #4 Sorry about the double comment but I left out the BUT. Who Polices the Police? A "former" skullcracker cracking skulls for the Forces of Good leaves one suspicious, even if Order Is Restored. |
| Posted by: John Bragg 2003-11-15 7:33:24 PM |
| #3 Like FDR appointing Joe Kennedy to run the SEC--the Major General from Military Intelligence knows who the baddies are, how bad they are, and which ones can be pumped for information and which must be pumped full of lead. |
| Posted by: John Bragg 2003-11-15 7:30:18 PM |
| #2 Correct SH, but don't forget all the prisons emptied in the fighting...a lot of hard boys are available for this, and generally are unemployable by character deficit. Kill them or throw their asses in deep black cells. Many here have decried the term "arrest" in lieu of "capture" and I totally agree. Rebels and criminals fighting in street clothes against our forces and Iraqi Police are undeserving of a judicial adjudication....a hole in the desert is what they deserve, or their heads on a pike...but hey, that's why Bremer's in charge, and not me ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-11-15 1:07:03 PM |
| #1 Some of this is coming from having so many people unemployed. Hopefully as the economy picks up fewer of the soft-core malcontents will be available for $100 hire. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-15 9:28:06 AM |