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...Each doctor may carry one weapon for self-defense.' IRAQI GOVERNMENT, announcing in a statement that the nation's doctors may arm themselves amid increasing violence against health-care workers...
...Iraqi capital's streets were empty, allowing our convoy to speed past collapsed buildings, concrete barriers and sleeping soldiers at checkpoints. By day, these streets would be clogged with traffic, and we'd be tense over the risk of explosions. Instead, we were unbridled, free, giddy. TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev has been covering Iraq since before the U.S. invasion. He had already been to Basra three times, but the last time he had driven like this, in a "soft"--unarmored--car and without the protection of the U.S. military, was in late 2003. Earlier this year, the route we were...
...danger is that such rhetoric will be matched by action. Al-A'ghayde says that won't happen because the SOIs "are not armed militias." Still, both the U.S. military and the Iraqi government know they cannot afford to let the SOIs fall through any cracks and feel alienated from either party...
...Brigadier General Perkins says that from the get-go, the intent was always that the Sons of Iraq would transition from their security role and be assimilated back into Iraqi society. Iraqi officials say their security forces cannot absorb much more than the 20%, he says, and many SOIs are not capable of meeting the entrance requirements anyway. "Obviously it can't be without limit," he says...
...fully understand that the proof will be in the execution," Brigadier General Perkins says. "We, along with the Iraqi government, know that this is strategically important that it is done properly." But the measure of whether it has succeeded will be in the response of Sheikh Saleh al-A'ghayde and his men, and others like them. And right now, the signs are not promising...