For a little cash, Iraq insurgents can join police

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10010120.htm

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - All an insurgent needs to join the Iraqi police force and plot the assassination of officers struggling to bring order is a little cash.

"They just pay some money, get a uniform and a pistol and a salary then kill who they want," a police official who asked to remain anonymous told Reuters.

"Some who are suspected leave after a month and others just stay in the police force getting information on police officers' movements and sharing it with other insurgents."

Hundreds of Iraqi policemen and soldiers have been killed in bombings and ambushes since a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. snip

In a typical assassination, insurgents in police uniforms stopped the chief of a central Baghdad police station at a fake checkpoint on Thursday, asked his name and shot him along with two other policemen. An insurgent filmed the killing of the officer, Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Obeis.

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1. Sounds like Vietnam...weren't they warned that this would happen?

[Why Syzygy]

2. Go Blue

Some Iraqi officials have argued that members of Saddam's Baath party intelligence network should be brought back to help improve security.

But the police official said settling of scores after decades of dictatorship was hurting those efforts after Jan. 30 elections brought some of Saddam's enemies to power.

"Now you have followers of these new parties killing former intelligence and security officials. Everyone knows this is happening but nothing is being done about it," he said.

I guess.

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3. They aren't at the gates, they're inside the gates.

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