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...When the disheveled policeman arrived, a search was ordered and the stockman was found-stunned and sooty-further along the river bank. The rocket was never seen again. "The stockman was asked if he wanted to press charges," Arneth recalls, "but he was too drunk to remember what happened...
...number of occasions. But they're not bad people. This is not a job where you have to be heavy-handed." Retirement is six years away and Taylor wants to see out his time right where he is. "I could never go back to a metropolitan area as a policeman," he says. "I love it here. It's a town of good people. That sounds corny, but they really are. They say a policeman's lot is not a happy one. I beg to differ...
Almost every Sunni family I meet seems to have a horror story that starts with a policeman at a checkpoint asking for identification. It's profiling, Iraqi style. The harassment ranges from getting insulting, sniggering comments ("Nice car. Where did you steal it?") to being handcuffed, blindfolded and hauled off to prison or, worse, a torture chamber. The most vulnerable are those who have obviously Sunni names, such as Omar. I have interviewed more than a dozen Omars, including two of Mahmud's nephews, who have endured varying degrees of persecution from police or militias. As a precaution, many Sunnis...
...Rice's trip is evidence that the U.S. is involved in the Middle East, whether it wants to be or not. That is not, for once, because it is the world's sole superpower, the policeman to which those in any tough neighborhood eventually turn. It is because the U.S. has a unique relationship with Israel and is committed to guaranteeing its security. That means Washington can talk to the Israelis and, occasionally, convince them that their best interests require them to talk to those whose motives and behavior they despise...
...Russell chair in political science at the University of Georgia. "They see this as her standing up for them. She's not going to be pushed around." Many of her constituents, he added, have likely had unpleasant dealings with the police and might have the desire to shove a policeman...