Sacked policemen storm government office in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO056640.htm

Sacked policemen storm government office in Iraq

SAMAWA, Iraq, July 10 (Reuters) - Some 200 sacked policemen from a province where Iraqi forces will take over security from British troops this month stormed the governor's office on Monday, beating people with hoses and stabbing them with knives.

The policemen, who were fired by Iraq's new interior minister for forgery and bribery, were demanding they be reinstated in their jobs in the southern city of Samawa, the capital of Muthanna province.

Muthanna is the first province outside peaceful northern Kurdistan that will be handed over from U.S.-led forces to Iraqis since the invasion in 2003, a move Washington, London and Baghdad have hailed as sign of progress of Iraq's forces.

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The policemen, who have staged several protests since they were sacked last month, also beat employees with metal pipes and broke windows.

[WCGreen]

1. Well, that's going pretty smoothly I should say....

[xultar]

2. That freedom thing can be tricky!

[Halliburton]

3. BUT ZARQAWI IS DEAD

and things were looking up after shrub flew into baghdad. that's at least what the media told me.

[rodeodance]

4. silly silly.

[Bob3]

5. ah still more progress -

N/T

[saigon68]

6. beating people with hoses and stabbing them with knives.

FREEDOM IS (truly) ON THE MARCH

[gratuitous]

7. Why are you so focused on the bad news?

Don't you know that we have good news out the wazoo in Iraq? Okay, a couple hundred former cops rioted. How does that stack up to electricity being on two and sometimes three hours a day? And millions of barrels of oil are being pumped, even though no one's quite sure exactly how much, who's buying it (if they're paying for it), who's shipping it, and who's making money off it, but come ON. We need to report just the good news. How about all the people who didn't riot in Samawa? That should surely be worth a mention, doncha think?

[kurth]

8. Iraq has a minister for forgery and bribery?

to administer forgeries and bribes?

[Richard Steele]

9. Are there ANY groups left in Iraq who haven't been pushed over the edge?

These aren't the "looney Islamic radicals", these are the COPS!

BushCaballiburton™ isn't gonna be happy until Iraq
is just a few militarized oilfields surrounded
by a Road Warrior wasteland.

And that reality is truly not far off anymore.