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...told a few weeks ago that he would be relieved of his command. Colonel Ali Zahawi Press Al-Sultani, district commander of the Iraqi Police, argued to TIME that Captain Rahman had not won over the townspeople - even though the reason for Colonel Ali's presence at the Haswah station on this day is to meet with a 100-strong delegation of locals protesting Captain Rahman's firing. The colonel rejects Rahman's claim that he has been fired for political reasons. "There have been a lot of demonstrations against him that you have not seen," Ali insists. "There...
...forces working in the area, the saga at the police station underscores the impenetrable nature of Iraqi factionalism. "I am certain that Captain Rahman's zeal for protecting the population of Haswah has attracted attention from political folks displeased with what he's accomplished," says Lieutenant Colonel Michael Getchell. "But I have no way of corroborating that politics were involved to the degree and in the way Rahman is alleging. What I do know, is that he now has a lot of pressure coming down on him, and my own request to the provincial police chief to let him stay...
...After consulting with the provincial police chief, Colonel Getchell tried to get Captain Rahman to consider taking command of a police station, or even a patrol job, in a less populated area along the highway. But Captain Rahman, now convinced he will be killed if he remains in law enforcement, declined the offer. Rahman notes that an Iraqi police general who mentored him and defended him from political pressure was killed by an explosive device last December after resisting a transfer order. "Without the help of coalition forces," Rahman says, "I will be dead soon. If they don't protect...
...land where the law is only as real as the nearest cop. Dart took us to an ancient volcanic dome north of the border. It was nearly 40 miles (64 km) inside the U.S., but it was effectively the property of Mexican smugglers, who station spotters atop the hill. From there, a man with binoculars can monitor the movements of every CBP agent in the desert below. We climbed up and found a radio and a car battery to power it, along with garbage from countless meals--beer, soda, fruit cocktail, beans, tuna, sardines, coffee creamer--and blankets, sweaters...
...risky to hire too many agents too quickly--as the growing number of corruption cases along the border attests. The bottom line is that resources are being pulled out of the border-security effort just as the fence is becoming a reality. That's why at one border-patrol station, agents made a wall calendar whose every page was May--so the National Guard's June departure date would never arrive...