as much as any other group. In fact on the Shia side they are the main "death squad" force. Not just "terrorists" or bomb tossers, but death squads--the fine folks responsible for piles of tortured dead bodies.
I'm not saying these individual police were Shia death squad members, but many are. That is how fucked up things are over there. Your angry but ill-informed outburst shows that Americans still have a lot to learn about how terrible a mistake our invasion has been.
Google can teach you.
Iraq police death squad arrested at checkpointOliver Poole, Telegraph
Baghdad, February 17, 2006
The United States military announced yesterday that it had captured an Iraqi police "death squad".
It was the first time one of the uniformed Shia Muslim groups that Sunni Arabs claim have killed hundreds in recent months has been identified in public.
Twenty-two highway police officers, wearing police commando uniforms, were held in late January at an Iraqi army checkpoint in north Baghdad.
When asked where they were going, they answered that they were taking away a Sunni man to shoot him.
"The amazing thing is they tell you exactly what they're going to do," said Maj Gen Joseph Peterson, the head of police training. "We have found one of the death squads. They are part of the police force."
Bodies of Iraqis, many bound and gagged, have been turning up in Baghdad for months. Twelve were found yesterday in the Shula suburb, all handcuffed, shot in the head and dumped at a roadside.
Sunnis have blamed many of the murders on death squads operated by the security forces, with witnesses providing testimony of uniformed men taking people from Sunni households. But previously there has been no independent proof to substantiate their reports of extra-judicial killings.
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In Basra, a British officer warned that similar squads were responsible for 140 murders over the past three months, more than double the number killed between May and November.
Iraq's death squads: On the brink of civil warMost of the corpses in Baghdad's mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed. By Andrew Buncombe and Patrick Cockburn
Published: 26 February 2006
Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of the Interior, the United Nations' outgoing human rights chief in Iraq has revealed.(the Ministry of Interior: aka, the police--k.b.)
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Many of the 110,000 policemen and police commandos under the ministry's control are suspected of being former members of the Badr Brigade. Not only counter-insurgency units such as the Wolf Brigade, the Scorpions and the Tigers, but the commandos and even the highway patrol police have been accused of acting as death squads.
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