.Iraq's New Interior Minister Promises a Clean Up
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's new interior minister pledged today to clean up an institution widely viewed as one of the primary causes of the country's violence and instability, as sectarian and insurgent violence surge. At least four U.S. Marines were reported killed in combat.
Jawad Bolani, a former engineer and political activist who took over the ministry about six weeks ago, vowed to purge the country's domestic law enforcement ranks of "unfaithful and corrupt elements, who do not believe in the democratic political project in Iraq, and who managed to penetrate [the ministry] under circumstances of political and governmental vacuums."
One of his deputies, in an interview, said Bolani wants to polish the image of the ministry, which has been accused of spawning death squads and torture chambers. Col. Saddoun Abulollah, a spokesman for Bolani, said the minister has already begun to reform the ministry.
Abulollah said the Iraqi people should honor the police. He said that 3,000 police officers had been killed and 3,000 had been maimed in the line of fire since April 2003.
Iraq's police are often the targets of attack. Today a roadside bomb seriously injured two police officers in Baghdad. Another bomb killed a police officer in Baqouba. Insurgents near Kirkuk killed four Iraqi police officers in an ambush on the road between the oil-rich city and the Sunni Arab city of Tikrit.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, in Amman en route to Baghdad said he would act carefully before dismantling the unauthorized militia groups that have sprung up throughout the country in the face of the security vacuum.
"There are many political, military and economic steps that will ultimately lead to dissolving or integrating the militias in such a manner that does not cause any tension and that assures the Iraqis and those shielding themselves behind militias that the government will be responsible for security," he said.
But in Iraq's south, British forces took a less delicate approach. They continued attacks on cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia arresting one leader in Basra and killing one during confrontations in Amara, police said.
The military released little information about the deaths of the four Marines. A press release said the four, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7, "died due to enemy action," while operating in Al-Anbar province.
Authorities reported the discovery of 13 bodies, with gunshot wounds to the head, in various parts of Baghdad and Baqouba.
LaTimes
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May it be the will of Allah
Jawad Bolani, a former engineer and political activist who took over the ministry about six weeks ago, vowed to purge the country's domestic law enforcement ranks of "unfaithful and corrupt elements, who do not believe in the democratic political project in Iraq, and who managed to penetrate [the ministry] under circumstances of political and governmental vacuums."
One of his deputies, in an interview, said Bolani wants to polish the image of the ministry, which has been accused of spawning death squads and torture chambers. Col. Saddoun Abulollah, a spokesman for Bolani, said the minister has already begun to reform the ministry.
Abulollah said the Iraqi people should honor the police. He said that 3,000 police officers had been killed and 3,000 had been maimed in the line of fire since April 2003.
Iraq's police are often the targets of attack. Today a roadside bomb seriously injured two police officers in Baghdad. Another bomb killed a police officer in Baqouba. Insurgents near Kirkuk killed four Iraqi police officers in an ambush on the road between the oil-rich city and the Sunni Arab city of Tikrit.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, in Amman en route to Baghdad said he would act carefully before dismantling the unauthorized militia groups that have sprung up throughout the country in the face of the security vacuum.
"There are many political, military and economic steps that will ultimately lead to dissolving or integrating the militias in such a manner that does not cause any tension and that assures the Iraqis and those shielding themselves behind militias that the government will be responsible for security," he said.
But in Iraq's south, British forces took a less delicate approach. They continued attacks on cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army militia arresting one leader in Basra and killing one during confrontations in Amara, police said.
The military released little information about the deaths of the four Marines. A press release said the four, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7, "died due to enemy action," while operating in Al-Anbar province.
Authorities reported the discovery of 13 bodies, with gunshot wounds to the head, in various parts of Baghdad and Baqouba.
LaTimes
Good luck, and you better get you some good bodyguards, your going to need them. We here at This Fucking War wish you all the success in the world.
May it be the will of Allah
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