You couldn’t pay me enough
Hot off the Associated Press wires…
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen ambushed a convoy of buses carrying police recruits northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 and wounding 25 others, police said.Authorities said dozens of other recruits were feared abducted following the midday attack outside a police recruiting center near the restive city of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Security officials imposed a three-day curfew over the city.
You couldn’t pay me enough to be a policeman in Iraq. It has to be the most dangerous job on the planet. You are either looking over your shoulder, waiting to be picked off by a terrorist; or you are constantly monitoring your fellow policemen, who are often in cahoots with the same terrorists.
2006 was supposed to be the “Year of the Policeman” in Iraq, meaning that Multi-National Forces Iraq was putting its emphasis on building up the Iraq Police Forces. In some cases, they’ve had to build whole city police departments from scratch because all the previous police officers had been executed.
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I saw your post on TF Boggs–noticed you disagreed with his assesment of the general–I’d be interested in reading your opinion.
BG Ali is stationed on the same base I am at in Iraq, Q-West Base Complex. His Iraqi Army soldiers work with my security guards at a couple of different locations on the base, so we talk or deal to him on a regular basis. My impression of him is that while he is good at rounding up terrorists, he is also corrupt as hell, shaking down workers who come on to this base. He sets up checkpoints a couple miles outside the base and forces workers coming in to pay a fee. Also, he’s been known to falsify his unit strength, inflating the numbers of soldiers by several hundred, in order to collect those phantom soldiers’ pay (which comes in cash).