Crossbow
5th November 2003, 10:43 AM
Operation Iraqi Freedom strikes again!
The USA and the Iraq Governing Council are in the process of forming of a new Iraqi Security Force that will have broad powers to apprehend, detain, arrest, and investigate those people suspected of supporting terrorist activities within Iraq. Some of the agents of this new force will be those who worked to keep Saddam in power.
While the USA is trying to be careful of just who gets into the organization and that it does not end up being misused for personal agendas, the formation of it is a concession of just how bad the security situation has become since the USA originally opposed forming such a group.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A858-2003Nov4.html
U.S. Shifts On Creation Of Security Unit in Iraq
Bremer Sets Conditions For Paramilitary Force
BAGHDAD, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. administrator of Iraq has decided to conditionally support the creation of an Iraqi-led paramilitary force composed of former employees of the country's security services and members of political party militias, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials.
Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council wants the force, which would pursue resistance fighters who have eluded American troops, to include a domestic intelligence-gathering unit and to have broad powers to conduct raids and interrogate suspects. Such characteristics would make the proposed force different from those created under other security initiatives undertaken by the Americans, who until now had expressed opposition to the idea.
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The unit that the Governing Council wants to create would be the most powerful domestic security force in Iraq, fueling concern among some U.S. officials that it could be used for undemocratic purposes, such as stifling political dissent, as such forces do in other Arab nations.
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The USA and the Iraq Governing Council are in the process of forming of a new Iraqi Security Force that will have broad powers to apprehend, detain, arrest, and investigate those people suspected of supporting terrorist activities within Iraq. Some of the agents of this new force will be those who worked to keep Saddam in power.
While the USA is trying to be careful of just who gets into the organization and that it does not end up being misused for personal agendas, the formation of it is a concession of just how bad the security situation has become since the USA originally opposed forming such a group.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A858-2003Nov4.html
U.S. Shifts On Creation Of Security Unit in Iraq
Bremer Sets Conditions For Paramilitary Force
BAGHDAD, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. administrator of Iraq has decided to conditionally support the creation of an Iraqi-led paramilitary force composed of former employees of the country's security services and members of political party militias, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials.
Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council wants the force, which would pursue resistance fighters who have eluded American troops, to include a domestic intelligence-gathering unit and to have broad powers to conduct raids and interrogate suspects. Such characteristics would make the proposed force different from those created under other security initiatives undertaken by the Americans, who until now had expressed opposition to the idea.
...
The unit that the Governing Council wants to create would be the most powerful domestic security force in Iraq, fueling concern among some U.S. officials that it could be used for undemocratic purposes, such as stifling political dissent, as such forces do in other Arab nations.
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