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COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ’S RECOVERY
Detailing police, military, and infrastructure progress in Baghdad, Northern Iraq, an Nasariyah, al Kut, an Najaf, and several other cities.
One representative example:
AS SAMAWAH
5th Marine Regiment recently:
� Assisted U.S. Army Military Policemen in completion of the formal training phase of the Rumaythah police force and security guards, and began the practical phase of training.
� Vetted the list of candidates for as Samawah police management positions in preparation for interviews this week. The candidates are college educated, accepted broadly by the community, and many have untainted military experience.
COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE
As of today, a total of 8,785 Iraqi police reported for work. Coalition Forces have issued more than 2,300 police uniforms.
An Iraqi citizen recently reported the location of a possible weapons cache inside a house in Baghdad to a joint patrol of Iraqi police and soldiers from the 549th Military Police Company. The patrol raided the house and seized six AK-47 magazines and almost 200 rounds of ammunition. No one was in the house when they raided it. They took the ammunition to a U.S. military weapons collection point.
Iraqi police in Baghdad and soldiers from the 549th Military Police Company recently served a warrant on two Iraqi men wanted for murder. The suspects fired on the joint patrol when they arrived at their residence. The patrol raided the residence and apprehended the men without injury to anyone. They took both suspects to the Police Academy Jail.
Iraqi police and soldiers from the 549th Military Police Company responded to the sound of shots fired from inside a Baghdad marketplace recently. The Iraqi police identified the shooter and observed him get into a vehicle. The patrol stopped the vehicle and searched it. They apprehended the suspect and took him to the Althawara Police Station. They seized an AK-47 rifle, a sub-machine gun and about 80 rounds of ammunition. They took the weapons and ammunition to a U.S. military police collection point.
DoD News: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair
Context of Wolfowitz’s remark —
Q: Was that one of the arguments that was raised early on by you and others that Iraq actually does connect, not to connect the dots too much, but the relationship between Saudi Arabia, our troops being there, and bin Laden’s rage about that, which he’s built on so many years, also connects the World Trade Center attacks, that there’s a logic of motive or something like that? Or does that read too much into —
Wolfowitz: No, I think it happens to be correct. The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, but — (Pause)
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Wolfowitz: – there have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is the criminal treatment of the Iraqi people. Actually I guess you could say there’s a fourth overriding one which is the connection between the first two.
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Wolfowitz: To wrap it up.
The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the Iraqis but it’s not a reason to put American kids’ lives at risk, certainly not on the scale we did it.
That second issue about links to terrorism is the one about which there’s the most disagreement within the bureaucracy, even though I think everyone agrees that we killed 100 or so of an al Qaeda group in northern Iraq in this recent go-around, …
In other words, of three or four fundamental issues, the WMD had the broadest agreement. He’s not dismissing it; nor is he describing a conspiracy (which would be an odd thing to do in a Vanity Fair interview anyway).
Speculation centers on Hamamra’s peaceful explosive charge, which experts say may have been designed to identify scarce water resources, to serve as a call to prayer, or as a mechanism for planting olive trees.
Amnesty International is investigating what it calls “the IDF’s genocidal policy of restricting Palestinian peaceful explosive development.”
Actor Sean Penn Bashes Bush, Iraq War in NY Times Ad
Sean Penn is very brave. Facing up to the McCarthyites. Speaking his mind, despite the “Chill Wind.”
Saying these things, knowing full well that tonight the secret police might come calling and haul him off to prison, or worse. Who knows what awaits him? The rack? The Iron Maiden? Perhaps he will be forced to reveal the identity of his accomplices. Maybe Ashcroft’s Gestapo will shut down the NY Times.
Yahoo! News - U.S.-Led Engineers Strive to Restore Iraq Power
Power supplied to Baghdad has doubled in the past two weeks to 50-60 percent of demand, but this still seems paltry to a city that sucked up a disproportionate 60 percent of Iraq’s electricity under Saddam’s highly centralized government.
“There have been senseless acts of violence and looting,” Held said. “There are people who jump down a manhole and set fire to cable so they can strip out the copper.” Held said the looters might make off with copper worth $5 — and leave a repair job that might cost $500,000.
Most parts of Baghdad, which received 20 hours a day of electricity and intermittent blackouts a year ago, can now expect two hours of power at four-hourly intervals.
Yahoo! News - Sharon Says He’ll Lift West Bank Closure
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) told Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday that he would lift a punishing closure on the West Bank by this weekend and free some prisoners, while demanding a swift crackdown on violent groups.
In the nearly 3-hour meeting Thursday night, Sharon told Abbas that as a good faith measure he would unilaterally end the 2-week-old closure on the West Bank by Saturday and allow some Palestinian workers to enter Israel. Israel also would ease some restrictions on roadblocks around Palestinian towns and planned to release some prisoners,
Gee, maybe he’s serious.
Baghdad Police Join U.S. Military in Raid
Although joint U.S.-Iraqi patrols of Baghdad’s streets began almost two weeks ago, Thursday’s raid on a three-building complex in western Baghdad brought Iraqi police deeper into the Army’s crackdown on crime.
But with just 8,000 Iraqi police patrolling a city of 5 million, it remains to be seen whether the Baghdad police will have men to spare for American-style raids.
Progress is slow. News reports, at least to me, seem to carry a relentlessly negative spin. And a thing as intangible as “law and order” is hard to quantify. I scan the news reports for number of police in Baghdad, now 8,000. As a point of reference, pre-war, the number was 40,000. Perhaps that was excessive, but it’s a reference point.
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