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...AUDIO: Maliki heads to the Jordan summit in a compromised position. The Iraqi Prime Minister?s troubles lie with his allies, not his enemies. TIME's Bobby Ghosh reports...
...Disappeared" [Nov. 6], Aparisim Ghosh's gripping story about the stark reality of the underworld of kidnapping and torture in Iraq, made me angry. If people in the region had sympathy for their neighbors, such criminality would not be tolerated. Yet greed and willful neglect of morals and humanity rule the day. What a sad state of affairs...
...AUDIO: You only have to take one look at the Iraqi forces' recent record to know why nobody really believes the new U.S. claim that they will be able to take charge of the country's security in 12 to 18 months. TIME's Bobby Ghosh reports from Baghdad...
...suspension this week of an entire Iraqi police brigade of roughly 700 men is the most dramatic step taken so far by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government to deal with its corrupt and inept security forces. But TIME's correspondents in Baghdad, Aparisim Ghosh and Brian Bennett, warn that this may be no more than a fig leaf, designed to shore up al-Maliki's political standing, rather than the start of a substantial cleanup...
...Says Ghosh: "First, where are they going to find the replacements for the bad cops? Al-Maliki's government has repeatedly said it aims to absorb Shi'ite militias into the security forces. So chances are, one set of rogue policemen will simply be replaced by another. Second, what are they going to do with the cops who will be fired? If they are simply allowed to go back to civilian life, they will rejoin their militias - the only difference is, they won't be in uniform...