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| Iraq police colluded in Kerbala attack |
| 2007-07-13 |
| A US Army investigation has concluded that Iraqi police assisted insurgents in an assault in the Shi’ite holy city of Kerbala in January that killed five US soldiers, USA Today reported on Thursday. USA Today said the information was contained in an investigative file made available to the newspaper and authenticated by the Army. During the attack, guerrillas posing as Americans entered a government compound in Kerbala, killed a US soldier and drove away with four others whom they shot and killed later. “(The American) Defence hinged on a level of trust that ... early warning and Defence would be provided by the Kerbala Iraq police. This trust was violated,” said the army report, dated Feb. 27. The paper said the attack had attracted special scrutiny by Pentagon officials because of the unprecedented breach of security and the tactics used by the insurgents. Among details included in the investigation were that Iraqi police vanished from the government compound before the attack, that gunmen knew exactly where to find and abduct US officers and that a back gate was left unlocked and unguarded. Some US soldiers who survived the assault told investigators they believed some attackers were allowed to blend in among Iraqi police inside the compound in the hours before the attack, the report said. It added that soldiers also told investigators they saw an Iraqi police commander in the compound talking on a cell phone and laughing as the assault ended. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Iraq's entire structure is rotten from top to bottom. I'm sure there are decent and honest fighting men scattered throughout the ranks but I wonder if there are enough so that we will ever be able to surmount the treachery that Muslims are so fond of. Personally, I doubt it. It still may have been wisest for us to simply have gone Medieval on the whole place and then built it from the ground up. I hope we have learned our lesson in nation-building. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-13 21:59 |
| #4 B: Ask any soldier over here how far he would trust an Iraqi policeman, or even an Iraqi soldier. Heck, I doubt even Iraqi cops and soldiers trust their "comrades". How do so many Iraqi security forces get kidnapped and killed? They have got to be thoroughly infiltrated/suborned by the enemy. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-07-13 09:35 |
| #3 See Page 1 article "U.S. forces kill 6 Iraqi police". Does not appear directly connected, but..... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-07-13 08:42 |
| #2 Five US soldiers dead because their "defense hinged on trust?" Lovely, just phueching lovely. Ask any soldier over here how far he would trust an Iraqi policeman, or even an Iraqi soldier. I smell denial and a gross failure in leadership. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-07-13 08:34 |
| #1 Americans really should've studied Russian experience with their Afghan allies and Israeli experience with "Palestinian Police". |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-13 06:49 |