23 Policemen Shot to Death in Iraq

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23 Policemen Shot to Death in Iraq


Oct 29, 5:31 PM (ET)

By STEVEN R. HURST

(AP) An Iraq army soldier kick the door in during a raid in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles)...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Suspected Sunni Arab gunmen killed 23 policemen Sunday, including 17 in one attack in the predominantly Shiite southern city of Basra, signaling the possible start of an intensified insurgent campaign against Iraq's predominantly Shiite Muslim security forces.

Political tension deepened in Baghdad when Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, the country's highest-ranking Sunni politician, threatened to resign if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not act quickly to eradicate two feared Shiite militias.

Al-Maliki, a Shiite, depends heavily on the backing of the two Shiite political parties that run the militias and has resisted American pressure to eradicate the private armies - the Mahdi Army of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Badr Brigade, the military wing of Iraq's biggest Shiite political bloc, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

Shiite gunmen, especially those of the Mahdi Army, are deeply involved in the sectarian killings that have brutalized Baghdad and central Iraq for months.

Bullshit. The US and Iraqi people will reap decades of violent death and hatred from the civil/regional war the Bushistas ignited in Iraq.

.....three-point approach to promote a micro scholarship program for youth in disadvantaged areas, support for short films, animations and documentaries, and the revival of book publishing in Iraq will resolved all of these police-killing problems right away. She needs to get over there and get right on it. :sarcasm:

Karen, Karen, Karen. Where'd she go? Bueller, Bueller, Bueller.......
:shrug:

Commander AWOL and the plastic turkey he used for a photo prop to pretend he cares about our troops

What a photo!!