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Iraq
Iraqi Police Honored as "Knights"
2007-01-31
BAGHDAD – More than 30 Iraqi Police officers were formally recognized for their dedication and personal sacrifice during a ceremony held in their honor at the 1st Battalion, 6th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division Headquarters in Baghdad recently. This first-ever ceremony made the honorees a member of a new order known as the “Knights of Iraq.”
Anybody else see the irony, here?

“I feel great on this great day because I’m recognizing my great soldiers, my best guys who were wounded, and the guys who sacrificed their lives in action,” said Iraqi Police Col. Ali Mohammed, who is the assistant commander. “These [policemen] work hard and put everything, even their lives in danger, for fighting the terrorist and even the bad people. According to Lt. Col. Ronald P. Reyna, the 1/6/2 National Police Transition Team chief, who is also a police officer in Louisville, Ky., wanted to honor the 12 Iraqi Police officers killed and the more than 100 wounded during the past year.

“In the United States Army, we have a tradition of recognizing outstanding performance. These police officers have gone above and beyond the call of duty and set a fine example for other police officers to follow,” he said to the ceremony attendants. “I think it’s a great day to recognize some great efforts by some heroic police officers who have done an outstanding job throughout the year.”

Reyna said the name, Knights of Iraq, is similar to the U.S. Army’s “Purple Heart Medal” which is in the Order of George Washington in that it will one day have the same symbolism of bravery and sacrifice given to become a member of that order. “We stand together and fight the cause and fight the enemy,” he said of his Iraqi brethren. “It really is a day of recognition for those who made those sacrifices, and I think it recognizes some great police officers sharing in some common bonds of being on the road together and fighting the enemy.”

One of the police officers who was honored came to the ceremony on crutches, as a result of some small-arms fire a few months ago. He said it was great that he and his comrades were honored. “I feel great today,” said Shihab Akmed Hussein, an Iraqi Police officer. “Now, I want just want to come back to work so I can help protect my country from the terrorists and kick them out of the country.”
Posted by:Bobby

#10  Here in America we're all Irish on March 17th.

Not me thanks. The green beer is too much for my delicate constitution.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-01-31 15:36  

#9  Awwwww. Where's my chew toy?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-01-31 15:22  

#8   I'm not sure why dipshits sometimes flock here, but flock they do.

probally ran out of SPLENDOR in ASS-stan.
Posted by: RD   2007-01-31 15:11  

#7  thank you, Fred
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-31 14:46  

#6  I'm not sure why dipshits sometimes flock here, but flock they do.
Posted by: Fred   2007-01-31 14:37  

#5  Look, if it gets them thinking in the right way, then who cares if historically Saladin was a Kurd? Here in America we're all Irish on March 17th. Most of the rest of the world would benefit from letting go of the back breaking weight of historical exactness in favour. Anguper Hupomosing9418 could more accurately have said the Muslim world has a history of idealized knighthood just as does Christendom, contemporanous to it, and equally honoured mostly in the breach.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-01-31 13:19  

#4  Maybe I am picking a nit, AH... but Saladin was a Kurd, so that would be Kurdish chivalry. If you got an Arab representative of "Arabic" chivalry, please present, by all means. I mean an Arab, not a Berber, Moor, or any other ethnic group that has been Islamized.

Good luck.
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-01-31 12:35  

#3  I don't see the irony. Arabs had/have a tradition of chivalry that goes back at least as far as that of European chivalry. The poet Dante put Muhammad in Hell, but put the Kurdish general Saladin in the ranks of the virtuous pagans, related to Saladin's performance in the Crusades against the Crusaders.. Linking notions of Arabic chivalry to the modern task of bringing law'n order to Iraq seems a very good idea indeed.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-01-31 09:27  

#2  Knights? How'd they slip that one by?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-01-31 09:16  

#1   “I feel great today,” said Shihab Akmed Hussein, an Iraqi Police officer. “Now, I want just want to come back to work so I can help protect my country from the terrorists and kick them out of the country.”

Amen.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-01-31 07:11  

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