Iraq to retrain police to weed out militias

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO851189.htm

Iraq to retrain police to weed out militias

More BAGHDAD, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Iraq's entire police force will undergo a month-long re-training course, an Interior Ministry official said on Monday, under a plan American officials hope will weed out sectarian death squads infiltrated in its ranks.

Many of the sectarian killings that leave dozens of tortured and bullet-riddled bodies dumped in Baghdad every day are blamed on rogue police, fuelling Iraq's communal conflict.

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"All the Iraqi police will be re-trained and rehabilitated to increase its capabilities. It is a new order," Police spokesman Brigadier Abdul Kareem Khalaf told Reuters.

All police units will be gradually pulled out from the field and put through a month-long retraining course under supervision of U.S.-led forces, Khalaf said, starting in October.

[Teaser]

1. This time I know it'll work

nt

[habitual]

2. aw rocky, but that trick never works!

this time for sure!

[rodeodance]

3. Massive undertaking to convet 'tribal thinking' to secaritan thought. Not

accomplished in a few short weeks.