Reply #8: Iraq's interior ministry refusing to deploy US-trained police

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http://indiamonitor.com/news/readNews.jsp?ni=11204

Iraq's interior ministry is refusing to deploy thousands of police recruits who have been trained by the US and the UK and is hiring its own men and putting them on the streets, according to western security advisers.
The move is frustrating US and British efforts to build up a non-sectarian Iraqi police force which would not be infiltrated by partisan militias.

The disclosure highlights growing US and British concern about the role of militias in sectarian killings, and their links to senior Iraqi politicians.

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The interior ministry, which is controlled by the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI), has not deployed any graduates of the civilian police assistance training team (CPATT), a joint US/UK unit, for the past three months.

Looks like formerly secular Iraq is becoming more and more fundamentalist. The US & UK are griping about the lack of use of their civilian police graduates... Iraq is upset about its lack of control over the process.

If this keeps up, freedom may stop marching.