Fallujah police officers avoid work after threats (100 Out of 2000 Remain)

[wellst0nev0ter]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of newly recruited police officers in Fallujah failed to show up for work Sunday after insurgents disseminated pamphlets threatening officers who stayed on the job, according to police officials in the restive western Iraq city.

"We will kill all the policemen infidels," read the pamphlets, "whether or not they quit or are still in their jobs."

Fallujah Police Lt. Mohammed Alwan said that the force, which he estimated had increased to more than 2,000, has now shrunk to only 100.

Alwan said that insurgents have killed dozens of policemen in their homes and also attacked family members in a weekslong intimidation campaign.

A Fallujah police major, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisals, said that at least 1,400 policemen had left their jobs since Friday, 400 of them police officials above the rank of officer.

"During the last three months more than 100 policemen were killed here," including a number of senior officers, the police major said.

Marine Lt. Lawton King, who is stationed in Fallujah, called those figures "inaccurate and grossly exaggerated," claiming that only 32 police officers had been assassinated since January and that "substantially fewer than the exaggerated 1,400" officers had failed to report for work.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15269636.htm

[TomInTib]

1. Maybe they missed the "New Uniforms" memo

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=5277603

[wellst0nev0ter]

2. Bwaahaa, Shiny New Uniforms

That oughta skeer them terra-ists :sarcasm:

[thecrow]

3. Oddly, they have a big circle on the back

looking somewhat like the Target icon.

:sarcasm:

[Roy]

4. This only proves that the Bush administration policy is correct

He said that when the Iraqis stand up, the US would stand down.

He did not tell them that they could NOT walk while standing..

Yep, all part of the plan and working just as WH predicted, shouldn't we proud of them?

:sarcasm:

[krkaufman]

5. Too few troops

As Bush chases his tail and sends troops into Iraq, Fallujah now spirals, nay plummets, into chaos.