New York times: Go an impact with officer Muhammed

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democracy and liberty by the barrel rifle October 11, 2004 New York
times: An impact with officer if Muhammed go as Bush, which is said in
the debates, US are training of police officers. This is to be
happened wholely insufficient and an accident, which waits, in order.
These police officers are adjusted up as canon fodder. The New York
sets opinion OI-OD for time participation celebration: Go an impact
with officer Muhammed, even if numbers of Mr. Bushs are correct,
125,000 Iraqis will in such a way state "completely" for the Iraqi
army, national protection, police trained and to security services
through end of the yearly are the designation up to now downward
regarding new to define are insignificant. Adnan Muhammed actually
belongs to the best trained police officers, of one of only
approximately 8,000 raw recruits, who accomplished the full eight-week
academy course. Simply a badge and a blue shirt were handed over to
thousands more on their first day. The debt does not lie with Mr.
Burke or the other civilian and American soldiers, who let the
academies run and Iraqi commanders advise. Rather Iraqi security is
forces in such hopeless form for the same reason, which is the
remainder of the country a winding accident: the Bush line ignored the
advice of its own people and tried to settle the work on the
inexpensive. Go one impact with officer Muhammed October 11, 2004
through SEAN FLYNN Swampscott, mass. - if president Bush praises
itself, as he has several times recently, "completely more trained"
security 100,000 personnel in the Iraq, speaks he about men such as
Adnan Majeed Muhammed. I met Mr. Muhammed in February on spread, in
Baghdad in that American army cratered reservists was, teaching Campus
to him, as one is a police officer. It was tool and dying man by
trade, but with unemployment at approximately 60 per cent, Mr.
Muhammed, who is 26, on signatoryly for from few jobs relatively
good-paid too were had in the new Iraq you run. After nearly eight
weeks at the academy, Mr. Muhammed had learned the bases of law
execution: as one with handcuffs binds prisoners and search cars, like
one A holds back correctly suspect, the bases of the Iraqi law.
"however, which I surprised totally," he explained me by a translator,
as his companion juengstere sons nodded into amazing agreement, "was
this complete concept of the human rights!" Some days later to protect
themselves and serve officer Muhammed with A sent in a city under
constant attack pistol, of the autobombs and of the rocket-propelled
shells. "that is, became a standard of training American to never take
you," said Gerald F. Burke, a retired Massachusetts at giving you
police major, who spent more, as one year as an advisor at to the
Baghdad commander of police. "it is a standard the Iraqis would not
assume, if they do not have. It is fair really an apology, thereby we
able to be said, ' he, tried we.' '' in such a way, even if numbers of
Mr. Bushs are correct, 125,000 maintains Iraqis "completely" for the
Iraqi army trained, national protection, police and security services
by end of the yearly is to define you the designation downward
regarding is insignificantly new up to now. Adnan Muhammed belonged
actually to the best trained police of officers, one of only
approximately 8,000 raw recruits accomplished the full eight-week
academy course. Thousands more simply a badge and a blue shirt on
their handed over first day. The debt does not lie with Mr. Burke or
other civilians and American soldiers, who let the academies run and
advising the Iraqi commanders. Rather the Iraqi security of forces are
in such hopeless form for the same reason remainder of the country is
a winding accident: the Bush line ignored the advice of its own people
and tries to settle the work on the inexpensive. Mr. Burke was a half
dozen the experts, those after the Iraq was sent past international
criminal investigation training support program, a justice department
group, in May 2003 out, as one represents a reliable police strength
established. Program would send other experts to determine around
prisons, courts and the remainder of the criminal
Gerechtigkeitsystems. Most critical recommendation of the group first
and was to get you into 6.000 international police advisors -
civilians with whom in the stations and on the roads would work Iraqi
officers. It is created an appropriate number for a nation of 25
million, on data of the efforts of the program in the dozens of other
war-violently gezerrissenen countries. Nevertheless more than one year
later - if the conditions are so terribly worsened that the advisors
could only travel to heavily armed convoys - it gave still less than
500 outside experts. It is a part of a more expanded sample of half
steps and of abbreviations. Academy program officer Muhammeds first
fixed dangerously minimum to be 16 weeks, still (a Massachusetts you
give more trooper to patrouillieren by comparison, trained for nearly
six to months, before it is permitted to him the turnpike where he
probably never with a roadside bomb attacked). Already American
officials, into attacks, to which, orders numbers of to improve
spindles on the road the curriculum almost cut. These each lecture
given, question and answer must be again translated of English into
Arab and in back, gentleman. Burke said that the Iraqi recruits leave
in A are the matter war zone with the equivalent of approximately four
weeks of instruction. And those can be a generous estimation and
regard those Iraqis catch with few, if any, understanding about like
law at execution is to work in a democracy. She could have seen a
black manufactured "Dirty Harry '' to film or some pirated television
set places, but the only meat and blood police officers, who knew them
at all, were Saddam Husseins. Under the Baathist regime was at best
putrid the police extortionists and at the worst complete criminals.
Corruption was endemic; good officers even took cash "points" from
citizenry to supplement to their poverty levels of wages. A legacy to
moderate is that they were by 13 outranked other security agencies at
least, thus it a relatively small source of the terror. Thousands of
those former officers, although, are back on job - only with much more
authorization. "now," a grinsendes Colonel explained to me that, "we
is the only one." Approx.. 32.000 has passed through a dreiwoechigen
reprogramming course. These lessons are informed also by translators,
and some seem more intended to fulfill political constituencies
outward than the Iraq to improve. Typical case: an two-hour seminar to
domestic act of violence seems in a country was honour toetungen is
general and in some cases certified in vain. Police major I met
dismisses this short lecture and the remainder of course work you:
"your system," he explained to me that, "does not work in our
country." Of course at the moment the lack of law execution training
power so importantly not its, because the Iraqi police not is was
trained for, using for which it apparent, anyway. "we are not even,
them ask, to protect the public" mentioned Mr. Burke. "we ask it to
protect the new regime. We do not send it out, around to go an impact
- we are sending it in Najaf and Samarra and Sadr city. We are sending
it into a combat role." And in such a way Adnan Muhammed is
accommodated surrounded after a Baghdad police station by ravines of
the bang barriers and strips of the rubber tire points to hold to the
autobombers at the bay. He me does not hope it explains the old men,
the leftovers, steers districts, spoils him; that its station does not
receive mortared; that its family not when coworker is killed; and
that it exploded not one of the hundreds of the Iraqi officers or
since the invasion shot. It thanks Allah for the Americans, who
informed it and to it a pistol gave. It believes to protect that it is
completely trained, over its country and apparent does George W. Bush
in such a way. Sean Flynn is an author of "3,000 degrees: The
applicable history of a deadly fire and of the men, they fought."