LAT: (Iraqi security forces) Ranks Plagued by Infiltrators

[DeepModem Mom]

Ranks Plagued by Infiltrators
Weak controls allow rebels to inflict harm in security forces' midst. Officials say improving screening is essential.

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writer


BAGHDAD — One bomber penetrated the secure compound of Iraq's most celebrated police commando unit. Another slipped into a mess hall where scores of Iraqi soldiers were sitting down for a meal.

Neither suicide attacker aroused suspicion for a very good reason: Both were Iraqi security officers....

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Amid dwindling U.S. public support for the war, the ultimate success of Iraqi security forces is a linchpin of the administration's hopes. "A major part of our mission is to train them so they can do the fighting, and then our troops can come home," Bush said.

But it is feared that rebels have a stealthy presence among those forces. Infiltration was a specialty of Saddam Hussein's security apparatus, and officials say many recent cases were directed by so-called former regime elements — FRE in military parlance....

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Authorities also suspect that insiders are providing insurgents with the identities of police and military commanders, who are being gunned down on an almost daily basis, typically on their way to or from work. Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has alleged that the names and addresses of police are even being sold on the streets, the motive often profit rather than politics....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-infiltrate29jun29,0,2035417.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[maddezmom]

1. the sad thing is, we've been seeing the same headlines over and over

this has been going on since they've tried to get a security/police up and running in Iraq.

Nothing is improving...it's static.

[Barrett808]

3. Not static -- worsening

This is the message I've been getting from the Bush mobsters: It will get worse before it gets better...but trust us, it will get better.



http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html

[goclark]

2. No! I am shocked! LOL

The TIMES is so behind.

They are selling papers for a $ a week and no one is buying them.

They are BUSHCO crime men.