Bremer backs Iraqi-led paramilitaries - Democratic Underground

Tom Yossarian Joad

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Wed Nov-05-03 04:22 PM
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Bremer backs Iraqi-led paramilitaries

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/75225EDD-C646-48E0-B089-BFF348E45E0E.htm

The top US official in Iraq says he supports the formation of an Iraqi-led paramilitary unit that would help hunt down insurgents.

But, says occupation administrator Paul Bremer, he wants to ensure several conditions are met in screening, training and supervising the unit's participants.

According to a report in the Washington Post, the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council wants the force to include former employees of Iraq's security services and members of political party militias.

The council also wants the unit to be equipped to gather intelligence and to have broad powers to conduct raids and interrogate suspects.
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arcane1

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Wed Nov-05-03 04:25 PM
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1. "Iraq's security services... members of political party militias"

:wtf:

aren't these the evil people we were supposedly getting rid of all this time???

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Dhalgren

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Wed Nov-05-03 04:27 PM
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2. Oh, well, that's just great!

US backed death squads are at it again! Yeeehaaaw! This is just like the old days!

Fu**ing makes me sick. We don't have enough problem (and the Iraqis don't have enough problems) we have to form and arm paramilitary militias? Jesus H. Ballsack!! If we hadn't lost this war before, we have lost it now.

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lumpy

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Wed Nov-05-03 07:29 PM
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3. Couldn't find a better group to do Bushco's dirty work in Iraq

Guess US troops just don't have the stomach for conducting raids and dirty interrogation procedures.

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