First Iraq Women Graduate As Armed Security Guards

MSNBC, Reuters ^ | September 30, 2003 | Fiona O'Brien

[Ex-Dem]

BAGHDAD, Sept. 30 — In an airless room at the back of a Baghdad ministry on Tuesday, 29 Iraqis became the first female state security guards in the postwar country, handed official badges and licences to carry weapons. A variety of ages, most wearing headscarves and long skirts, the women are the first to join the Facilities Protection Service (FPS) -- a force which guards anything from ministries to dams -- as fully fledged and armed officials. ''This day is something that has never happened before,'' FPS chief Faisel Muhsen Ali told the women at a short and no-frills ceremony. ''Before people said women were even but it was just words...This is the first time in Iraq women are doing real security work.'' Under Saddam Hussein's mainly secular rule, women enjoyed greater equality with men than in many other Arab states, holding jobs in business and government but not in the police.

[Ex-Dem]

Another positive Iraq article from MSNBC/Reuters?! The editors must have fallen asleep over there...

[Ex-Dem]

*Iraqification ping!

''This day is something that has never happened before,'' FPS chief Faisel Muhsen Ali told the women at a short and no-frills ceremony.

''Before people said women were even but it was just words...This is the first time in Iraq women are doing real security work.''

Under Saddam Hussein's mainly secular rule, women enjoyed greater equality with men than in many other Arab states, holding jobs in business and government but not in the police.

[zencat]

It's obvious we're falling deeper and deeper into a quagmire. . .

[PropheticZero]

Where are the Dems blaming the fact that these women have to work at all on Bush. I'm sure they think its Bush's fault that they have to work since he kept Uday and Qusay from raping and killing them.

We could have saved everyone a lot of trouble if we hadn't forced our will on the iraqi people. /sarcasm

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks. Ex-Dem! DoD did a report on the Iraqi women security guards some time ago. That's our press - on the cutting edge of the 1960's. (^:

''Before people said women were even but it was just words...This is the first time in Iraq women are doing real security work.''

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[blackie]

Armed Iraqi women ~ Bump!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Stultis]

But no pictures! You can find some women under arms here.

[windchime]

Saw a clip of the class on Fox. They are proud!

[blackie]

Perfect ~ an armed woman is a safe woman!

[PhilDragoo]

Who will liberate women? The USA's CPA--not NOW.