Endangered Iraqi Police Weigh Careers

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Endangered Iraqi Police Weigh Careers
Many survivors of a deadly bombing in Kirkuk say they will return to the force, some out of loyalty, others for lack of options.
By Charles Duhigg, Times Staff Writer

KIRKUK, Iraq — As his mother sat by his side in the hospital, crying and wiping the bloodstains on his uniform, Abass Jasim explained that he would like to leave the police force after a suicide blast here Monday. But he was not sure he could.

"This may be the only way to earn my living," said Jasim, 20, who suffered what doctors said are life-threatening injuries. "I want to leave, but I am not sure I can. I may have to die as a police officer."

After this northern city was rocked by a suicide car bomb that killed at least nine police officers and injured 40 other Iraqis, most of them also police, an increasingly familiar ritual began. In a nearby hospital, weeping families gathered, some officers died from their wounds, and many surviving victims pledged they would return to the force.

Medical personnel said 18 officers were critically injured in the blast, and the death toll is expected to rise.

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"I will continue to be a policeman to help the Kurds," 33-year-old Syrwan Azidium said from a hospital bed, burns covering his face and arms. "But not for Iraq. Only for Kurdistan."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-blast24feb24,1,3795661.story?coll=la-headlines-world

[Mari333]

1. sigh. all the mothers of the world must unite

and point their finger at one place. The Neocons in the WH who have caused this bloodbath that kills and maims our children daily.

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. It's a remarkably clever strategy

There are no jobs in Iraq. The crusaders import Bangladeshis, Philippinos, you name it, to serve them, the only jobs Iraqis can apply for are as official collaborators.

So they line up, Iraq's remaining able-bodied men, desperate to earn a little food for their kids, they line up, and surprisingly large amounts of plastic explosives blow them up.

One would think that the Resistance would deploy such premium materiel in locations more likely to net a crusader.

And one would think that they would encourage their neighbors and cousins to "collaborate" in order to harvest valuable intelligence and logistic information to maximize the effectiveness of such deployment.

[Mari333]

3. and here too

no jobs, tons of kids 18-25 with no possibility of a job in the US, who sign up for college monies and are lied to and then sent over as weekend warriors, teenagers with guns.
In the meantime, the children of the elitist chickenhawks never see the bloodbath, and the wealthiest in the US send memos congratulating themselves on short term profits at the cost of our childrens lives and the lives of the children in Iraq.
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