Iraq probes police “death squad” - Where is John Negroponte at?

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/February/focusoniraq_February79.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s interior ministry Thursday said it has set up a commission of enquiry to probe reports of a ”death squad” within the police force, which targeted the Sunni minority.

“The interior minister has ordered the setting up of a commission of enquiry to look into this matter,” Major-General Hussein Kamal, the deputy minister in charge of intelligence, told AFP.

The move comes after US Major-General Joseph Peterson, in charge of training the Iraqi police, told the Chicago Tribune newspaper that 22 policemen, dressed in police commando uniforms, were arrested in late January in northern Baghdad as they took away a Sunni to be shot. snip

“It’s not just one death squad. There are many,” said the spokesman who declined to be named because of fear for his life.

“In the northern Baghdad district of Hurriyah alone, some 70 young men from our community have been killed by these units, and the overall toll figure is likely to be more than 1,000 and includes 20 imams (religious leaders),” the spokesman said.

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1. That is his specialty... and the news knows it, so why aren't they

asking the same question?