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...Qaeda sympathizers. Authorities believe al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks, which killed 34. The arrests bring to 21 the total number of suspects in custody, but U.S. officials said there was still a risk of further terrorist attacks in the kingdom. Violence Resumes SPAIN Two policemen died and a third was critically injured when a bomb exploded under their car in the small town of Sanguesa in Navarra province, which borders the northern Basque region. Authorities blamed the Basque separatist group ETA for the attack, which came days after municipal elections from which the separatist party Batasuna was barred...
...organization CARE has ordered workers to use taxis to get around the city. "We half expected the police force to still be functional, but they were not," Army Major General Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said last week. Although more than half of Baghdad's regular policemen--about 1,700--have returned to work, few have cars, all need to be retrained and their looted station houses are not open around the clock...
...very little communication; political and criminal gangs still control much of the street - 240 Iraqi civilians were reported killed in the city in the first three weeks of occupation - and looting, car-jacking and revenge-killings continue; U.S. troops untrained for the job have been forced to function as policemen even as some hostile elements in the population are firing on Americans; and the political temperature is rising as Iraqis of many different, even contradictory, political stripe are demanding that the occupiers hand over power to Iraqis...
...besides the Pentagon's traditional reluctance to dull the blade of its fighting forces by deploying them as policemen, there is also a concern that these troops are not specifically trained for the complex and challenging mission of providing day-to-day security in an alien, often hostile environment in a manner that endears the occupying forces to the local population. And to win the hearts and minds of that local population while knowing there are bad guys lurking among them whose prime purpose is to kill Americans - just last week two U.S. soldiers were shot dead in separate incidents...
...Under pressure from Turkey, the main Kurdish parties agreed to withdraw their Peshmerga, but in their place came policemen from Erbil and Suleymaniya - again Kurds...