IRAQ: Policemen resigning due to insecurity and threats

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/535ed41524908317ee7d685c61453c45.htm

BAGHDAD, 6 January (IRIN) - Iraqi police continue to leave their jobs, and some are even leaving the country, in response to violence and threats against them.

Insurgents have said policemen countrywide are targets due to their work with US troops and consider them to be traitors.

"We are doing our duties on the streets of this country afraid that at any time someone may hit us," Sgt Abbas Husseiny, a policeman responsible for a checkpoint in the Mansour district of the capital, Baghdad, told IRIN.

According to the Interior Ministry, there were some 76,000 police officers in Iraq during Saddam's time. After the former Iraqi president was ousted in April 2003, there were no police officers for a month.

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[KDLarsen]

1. Well, I would be pretty pissed off too..

.. if insurgents were able to grab 50 of my colleagues & gun them down one by one - and nothing was really done about it.

[bemildred]

2. Title: "insecurity and threats"

Body: "violence and threats"

Purely a coinkydink, of course.

A fully candid reading would say something like "Policemen resigning
because of mass killings of co-workers"

[pokercat999]

3. "We are doing our duties on the streets of this country afraid that at any

Ever think you're not doing your duty to your fellow citizens?