ROFL Headline of the Day: "U.S. to mentor Iraqi police in halting torture"

[sabra]

http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/news/ci_3356614

U.S. to mentor Iraqi police in halting torture
By Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post



BAGHDAD, Iraq — A new U.S. program will pair American military units with Iraqi commando teams and other Interior Ministry special police units accused of abuses ranging from illegal detention to committing torture and operating death squads, U.S. military officials said Thursday.

One senior U.S. military official said the mentoring program is aimed specifically at former militia forces within the Interior Ministry, which is dominated by the current governing Shiite religious parties and those parties' factional fighters.


"By hugging the enemy, wrapping our arms around them, we hope to control them ... like we did with the army," the official said.

The U.S. military also will likely expand the work of U.S. "transition teams" within Interior Ministry police forces and step up U.S. military and civilian contractor involvement with local police around Iraq, said Lt. Col. Frederick Wellman, spokesman for the U.S. training program for Iraq's rebuilding security forces.

[rosesaylavee]

1. Oh yeah, that mentor thing sure is helping

with the Iraqi police units. They have that no-torture plan down pat. :sarcasm:

[otohara]

2. Is This One of Them Payola Feel Good Stories

this is a joke right?

[louis-t]

3. Yep, we'll stop them damn eye-rackis from torturin'

Yeah, everyone knows how * hates torture. He despises it with every fiber of his being. It angers him so much it keeps him up at night. He....what? He LOVES torture? The dickens, you say!

[kahleefornia]

4. "here's how *we* stopped..."

(you have to torture before you know how to halt your torturing!)