Faux News missed it: Iraqi Militas Get Best/Brightest

apotropoxy · #1 (**permalink**) 05-01-2006, 12:53 PM

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Militias steal new recruits with better pay and perks
By Daniel McGrory
Iraq'a militias are growing in strength, attracting many recruits from the US-run police academy

SOON after he graduated near the top of his class at the American-run police academy, Alah defected. He did not bother to inform his superiors. The young Iraqi police officer simply walked into a recruitment office in a rundown neighbourhood of Baghdad and signed on for the Mahdi Army, the private militia run by the radical young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has been blamed for some of the most savage atrocities in this city in recent weeks.
The 23-year-old absconder described it as “a career move”. The pay was better, the duties less onerous and there was far less chance of being killed.

Three years after President Bush declared “mission accomplished” in Iraq, young gunslingers such as Alah are what passes for the law across much of this city today.
Nobody knows for sure the strength of Iraq’s militias, but they certainly outnumber the 120,000-strong police force that estimates it is losing several hundred recruits a month. This is the only country where police and soldiers have it written into their contracts that they can leave on a whim without being punished. (…)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...RSS&attr=World

Bush the Lame tells us we'll leave Iraq when "they stand up." Well... they're standing up and walking away.
You're doing a hell of a job, Georgie!

sputterman · #2 (**permalink**) 05-01-2006, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by apotropoxy";p=&quot

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Militias steal new recruits with better pay and perks
By Daniel McGrory
Iraq'a militias are growing in strength, attracting many recruits from the US-run police academy

SOON after he graduated near the top of his class at the American-run police academy, Alah defected. He did not bother to inform his superiors. The young Iraqi police officer simply walked into a recruitment office in a rundown neighbourhood of Baghdad and signed on for the Mahdi Army, the private militia run by the radical young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has been blamed for some of the most savage atrocities in this city in recent weeks.
The 23-year-old absconder described it as “a career move”. The pay was better, the duties less onerous and there was far less chance of being killed.

Three years after President Bush declared “mission accomplished” in Iraq, young gunslingers such as Alah are what passes for the law across much of this city today.
Nobody knows for sure the strength of Iraq’s militias, but they certainly outnumber the 120,000-strong police force that estimates it is losing several hundred recruits a month. This is the only country where police and soldiers have it written into their contracts that they can leave on a whim without being punished. (…)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...RSS&attr=World

Bush the Lame tells us we'll leave Iraq when "they stand up." Well... they're standing up and walking away.
You're doing a hell of a job, Georgie!

aren't we winning? And there's a new government and everything!

JP5 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-01-2006, 01:56 PM

I wouldn't say it's "less" of a chance of getting killed.

U.S.: Ramadi battle kills 100-plus insurgents
Iraq president eyes deal for armed groups to join political process

Monday, May 1, 2006; Posted: 2:06 p.m. EDT (18:06 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi troops killed more than 100 insurgents last week in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a U.S. Army officer said Monday."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

apotropoxy · #4 (**permalink**) 05-01-2006, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by JP5";p=&quot

I wouldn't say it's "less" of a chance of getting killed.

U.S.: Ramadi battle kills 100-plus insurgents
Iraq president eyes deal for armed groups to join political process

Monday, May 1, 2006; Posted: 2:06 p.m. EDT (18:06 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi troops killed more than 100 insurgents last week in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a U.S. Army officer said Monday."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

1. His opinion of situations of relative safety are probably more acute than ours.
2. The article's subject joined the the Mahdi Army. It's the private militia run by the radical young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has been blamed for some of the most savage atrocities in Baghdad. These Shi'ite militias are currently being supported by the occupiers.

sputterman · #5 (**permalink**) 05-01-2006, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by apotropoxy";p=&quot

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Originally Posted by JP5";p=&quot

I wouldn't say it's "less" of a chance of getting killed.

U.S.: Ramadi battle kills 100-plus insurgents
Iraq president eyes deal for armed groups to join political process

Monday, May 1, 2006; Posted: 2:06 p.m. EDT (18:06 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi troops killed more than 100 insurgents last week in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a U.S. Army officer said Monday."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

1. His opinion of situations of relative safety are probably more acute than ours.
2. The article's subject joined the the Mahdi Army. It's the private militia run by the radical young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has been blamed for some of the most savage atrocities in Baghdad. These Shi'ite militias are currently being supported by the occupiers.

we are on the wrong side.

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