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...been involved in a shoot-out with police forces just 10 months before. Some army commanders are not shy about complaining about the police. "I am very sure that the Iraqi Army is equipped and ready to handle the situation after Jan. 1," said another commander, Col. Abbas al-Moussawi. "We're not sure MOI [Ministry of the Interior, a reference to Iraqi police] forces are ready...
...every member of the police force is so direct about who the target is. Amara's city police chief, Colonel Kazim Nema Mohammed al-Moussawi, is one officer who survived the operation's purge of local officials and he, unlike Harbia, has held his post since 2007. Politically, it shows. "There are militias who call themselves the Mahdi Army, but they are not the Mahdi Army," al-Moussawi says, when asked to identify a target of the operations. "The real Mahdi Army is staying in their homes...
Despite his powers of discrimination, al-Moussawi has a leading role in the general crackdown on al-Sadr's militia. On Friday morning, he led a convoy of four police trucks into downtown Amara, their sirens breaking up traffic as they sped down a packed central-market street. The day's mission: to arrest two men whom he said have been linked by a court to intra-Shi'ite revenge killings. Down a side alley, the trucks ground to a halt and the police stormed a small concrete house, arresting a young...
After dropping the man off at the police station, al-Moussawi's force was back on the road - this time to investigate a tip about a weapons cache. At a nearby graveyard filled with garbage, the police uncovered a small collection of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and mortars - rusty remnants of the Iran-Iraq war, which al-Moussawi said militants now pack with fresh explosives to reuse...
...offensive has been tough, Amara's commanders say, but they're not going it alone. Shortly after the morning's mission, four American soldiers visited al-Moussawi's station to inquire about progress made in dismantling an office used by the Sadrists. One of the soldiers, who said they were under orders to prohibit the press from photographing them, put the number of American troops brought into the area since last month at around 1,000. They are also building a new forward operating base in the area...