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2006/10/4-5 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44660 Activity:nil
10/3    Better Off Without Saddam Watch:
        "BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities have taken a police brigade out of
        service and returned them to training because of "complicity" with
        death squads in the wake of a mass kidnapping in Baghdad this week, a
        U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday."
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_police
        \_ Yes, and?
           \_ Well, see, under Saddam, they'd've at least lost their pensions.
              \_ I know you're joking but seriously, not only did they not
                 lose any benefits, they were doing their jobs as ordered.
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_police
AP Iraqi police unit linked to militias By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 4, 9:11 AM ET BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities have taken a police brigade out of service and returned them to training because of "complicity" with death squads in the wake of a mass kidnapping in Baghdad this week, a US military spokesman said Wednesday. The kidnapping took place on Sunday, when gunmen stormed into a frozen meats factory in the Amil district and snatched 24 workers, shooting two others. The bodies of seven of the workers were found later but the fate of the others remains unknown. Sunni leaders blamed Shiite militias and suggested security forces had turned a blind eye to the attack. William B Caldwell, said the Iraqi police brigade in the area had been ordered to stand down and was undergoing re-training. "There was some possible complicity in allowing death squad elements to move freely when they should have been impeding them," he told a Baghdad press conference. "The forces in the unit have not put their full allegiance to the government of Iraq and gave their allegiance to others," he said. The suspended brigade has about 650-700 policemen, Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. The Iraqi Interior Ministry said Tuesday that the commander of the unit, a lieutenant colonel, had been detained and was being investigated, and that the major general who commands the battalion that includes the suspended brigade has been suspended temporarily and ordered transferred. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the chief ministry spokesman, said a random selection of troops in the suspended unit were being investigated for ties to militias. Iraqi police officer stands guard after a road side bomb ripped through an apartment building killing four and wounding 14 in Baghdad's downtown Al-Nasir Square, Monday Oct. At least 14 people were killed Monday in attacks in Iraq. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.