Iraqis overwhelm police recruiting drive

[unhappycamper]

Iraqis overwhelm police recruiting drive


Iraqis overwhelm police recruiting drive
By Drew Brown, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, December 8, 2007

KIRKUK, Iraq — Hussein Karim Hussein has been trying to join the police force here for the past four years.

The first time he tried to sign up, the 30-year-old Sunni Arab said an official demanded a bribe of 4 million Iraqi dinars, the equivalent of nearly $2,700, in exchange for getting him into the provincial training academy.

The second time he tried to join, another official wanted $2,000 in U.S. cash, Hussein said.

Exasperated, Hussein went to Baghdad, thinking he might have better luck by applying directly to Iraq’s Ministry of Interior.

“Unfortunately, I found there that if you’re not a member of a Shiite militia, then you can’t be a policeman for the Ministry of Interior,” Hussein said, speaking through an interpreter.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50810

[sam sarrha]

1. these bribes have been common knowledge from the beginning.. nothing done.. incompetence rains from

this administration.. floods from it..

with 85% unemployment, everybody's children hungry, everybody's family going without medicine, drinking contaminated water, rivers of shit and rancid piss ankle deep in the Fucking streets,

and they didn't see this coming.?? !!!!!