Posted on 11/14/2004 1:22:17 PM PST by kattracks
BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities are moving against enemy informants and sympathizers in the ranks of the nation's hastily trained security forces by firing thousands of police officers and taking over from Americans the screening of new recruits.[snip]
"Most of the screening as far as the staff is up to the Iraqi staff now," said U.S. Army Capt. Kevin Bradley, who trains Iraqi national guardsmen. "Right now, whether or not the person is clean, it depends on the Iraqis."[snip]
The Iraqi armed forces, meanwhile, have taken charge of their own recruiting. They often employ methods that, while falling short of U.S. civil rights standards, are proving effective, Capt. Bradley said.
In April, when fighting broke out in various parts of the country, many Iraqi soldiers and police ran for their lives or handed their weapons to the attackers.
Iraqi authorities have raised the recruitment age from 17 to 20 and instituted new rules to keep anti-government sympathizers out of the ranks.
Each recruit must now bring a letter of approval from his local community council, and each military base now dispatches committees to new recruits' neighborhoods to check on their "moral background," Maj. Ala al-Khifajey of the Iraqi national guard said.
What's more, nepotism is now the rule: Every new recruit must have a relative already in the service to vouch for him.
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But privacy rules and fair-hiring practices simply didn't work in a country surrounded by bloodthirsty enemies, infiltrated by suicidal Islamic extremists and ravaged by decades of poverty and war, he said.
"Maybe 10 years down the line we'll have the kind of society where a man can just walk in off the street and sign up for the army," Maj. al-Khifajey said, "but definitely not now."
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I wonder if having kin in ,is to insure they know who to go looking for is a recruit deserts or turns against them. Not a bad idea.
The Iraqis know who the bad guys were. The folks from the US doing the hiring couldn't possibly know. Good time to thin out the ranks, before the elections.
Cut their heads off.
Our new CIA Director is thinning out the traitors, Carteristas, Clintooonistas and Kerristas from the CIA.
This is good news, they'll know better than we who's on the up and up, and who's a dirty rat.
I think things are taking a turn for the better in Iraq. Hopefully finding those poor hostages, torture chambers and dead bodies will be proof positive that restraint is the wrong approach when dealing with Islamofacist psychopaths.
And screw the NY Times, the dems, the left, the Euros or whoever else don't like it. They can lump it.
FIRING? The informants should be executed and the "sympathizers" should do a tour at Abu Ghraib. Those guys fired will now join the terrorists.
Sung to the tune of "I'm a Loser" by the Beatles.
In Fallujah.
In Fallujah.
And there's Bradleys to the rear of me.
Of all the wars we have won and have lost
There is one foe we should never have crossed.
We have a chance in a million, my friend,
I should have known we would lose in the end.
In Fallujah,
And there's Marines to the rear, I see,
In Fallujah,
and the snipers put the fear in me
Although I sneer and say "allah akhbar!",
Beneath this dirt I am covered with scars.
Our men are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for Saddam or Osama we die?
In Fallujah,
And I've lost some men who're near to me,
In Fallujah
And a Cobra just appeared to me.
What have we done to deserve such a fate,
Allah, our god, I had thought you were great,
And so it's true, don't take on the Marines,
I'm telling you, they are killing machines.
In Fallujah,
And I lost my life so dear to me,
In Fallujah,
And now Satan has appeared to me.
was thinking the same thing.... time to clean house at the DOJ as well.
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