Iraqi Guerrillas Attack Police Station

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Thu, Dec. 04, 2003

Iraqi Guerrillas Attack Police Station
SLOBODAN LEKIC
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Guerrillas attacked a police station in central Iraq on Thursday, a day after U.S. and Iraqi officials revealed they were considering creating a specialized Iraqi paramilitary battalion to help fight the insurgents.

The Ramadi Police Directorate 100 miles west of Baghdad was struck by two rockets as officers gathered inside to receive their monthly salaries, said Maj. Samir Habib. Two policemen and four civilians were wounded, he said.

Ramadi, a town on the main highway between Iraq and Jordan, is part of the so-called Sunni Triangle - a region north and west of Baghdad that has seen fierce resistance to the U.S.-led occupation.

Meanwhile, U.S. forces on Thursday kept up their daily raids against suspected rebel strongholds, including an overnight raid in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit that netted limited quantities of illegal weapons. (snip/...)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7406415.htm

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. "the United States, which previously declared private militias illegal "

. . Do the USA "decision-makers" have any idea what the Feck they are doing ??

they keep changing the "rules"

but then again, theyv'e been "changing the rules" for hundreds of years

Should not be a suprize really -

From the Article:

. . If created, the paramilitary unit would represent a significant policy reversal by the United States, which previously declared private militias illegal and called on Iraqi political leaders to disband them.

The Pentagon's policy chief said Wednesday the United States would welcome militia members into the Iraqi security forces as long as they agreed to drop their previous party affiliations.

"We are willing to take people into these forces as long as when they come in they are not operating as members of these other (militia) forces," U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith said in Washington.

/snip/

Right - let the foxes into the henhouse

I think the USA's decision-makers brains have gone to mush

[izzie]

2. Did I hear on TV that the police (Iraq) can not be trusted since....

this NYC cop went home? That they are not taking over their job as they should. We can not count on them at all and either can the people of Iraq. For the love of God, Bush could not run his life, his father's friends made him rich and gave him jobs, how do you think he can run a country? Ours or Iraq.This is all madness.