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...fire last Saturday, although that could as easily have been the work of Sunni insurgents. And Allawi's government will have to have been concerned by reports of widespread instances of Iraqi security forces refusing to fight against the Sadrists, or even in the case of significant numbers of policemen, actually defecting to Sadr's side...
...Gerhard Schröder caused a predictable outcry when he said he sees no reason to drop the reforms. "The spelling reform is a good example of the German disease," says Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democratic Party. "Instead of taking care of domestic security by hiring more policemen, we wasted the work of 200 civil servants to look after this reform." The issue has even divided Schröder's Social Democratic Party (spd). Dieter Wiefelspütz, an spd parliamentarian, says that despite Schröder's support, "it's just a couple of bureaucrats who demand...
...Iraq's oil exports offline. Beside the firefights initiated by his militias, there were also tens of thousands of Iraqis on the streets demonstrating against the U.S.-Allawi offensive by week's end. Particularly worrying to the new government will have been the spectacle of a number of uniformed policemen reported to have joined the pro-Sadr protestors in Baghdad...
...declined to give his full name. "It's especially true in the traffic section. If you help spring a murderer, you're going to feel a heavy psychological burden. But if you help a friend beat a traffic fine, you feel nothing." The Beijing cop says most policemen he knows have helped get friends or acquaintances off the hook for traffic violations. "It's become part of our culture," Liu says. "China has plenty of laws. It's the enforcement that's lacking...
...security challenge in Iraq has been less about getting men armed and into uniform, than about ensuring they are trained, and more importantly, loyal to the political leaders directing their commanders. The problem at Fallujah and countless other instances where Iraqi soldiers and policemen refused to fight insurgents was not that they were inadequately equipped or trained; it was that they were not willing to fight other Iraqis on behalf of the occupation. To the extent that the new government is able to isolate the insurgents from the broader population, the hand-over of sovereignty could go along...