This drives me CRAZY: "Gunmen dressed as Shiite Guards..."

Why do they continually phrase it in such a way? "Gunmen dressed as police" did this, "Gunmen in police uniforms" did that...

Isn't it pretty damned clear what's happening? It's civil war, and the so-called security forces, police, and Iraqi military WE ARE INSTALLING are using this power to kidnap and murder!!

Violence in Iraq Leaves Seven GIs Dead
Gunmen Dressed as Shiite Guards Kill, Kidnap Men in Sunni Area
By ROBERT H. REID, AP

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Jan. 23) - Gunmen wearing uniforms of a Shiite-led security force swept into a Sunni Arab neighborhood in central Baghdad before dawn Monday, killing three men and speeding away with more than 20 others, police and witnesses said.

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The raid began about 5 a.m., when seven carloads of gunmen rolled into the neighborhood, witnesses and police said. The gunmen fanned out, entering one mosque and several homes. They dragged males out of their beds and herded them into the street.

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"They took us away and put us into a room in a building I didn't recognize, where they beat us and asked us questions about who we were," he said. "Then they took a few of us in their cars and dumped us on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, saying if we said anything or looked at them they would kill us."

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Sunni Arabs have long complained of abuses by the Shiite-led forces, accusing them of abducting and killing Sunni civilians under the pretext of battling the insurgency. Shiite civilians are also targeted by Sunni extremists.

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060122090409990021&_mpc=news%2e10%2e1&cid=842

Of course the military knows that too many thugs are taking advantage of our bad planning and worse.