‘Security forces’ rob Baghdad academics

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1400661.ece

‘Security forces’ rob Baghdad academicsHala Jaber and Ali Rifaat

WHEN Iraqi soldiers and police smashed their way into Mohammed al-Jabouri’s home on the first day of Baghdad’s latest security crackdown last week, he did not imagine they would steal the family’s life savings.

The security forces separated the men from the women and then ordered Jabouri’s wife to give them a suitcase filled with jewellery and £20,000 in cash. When she argued they threatened to shoot her. Then they destroyed the furniture and broke the windows of the cars in the garage.

“The same militiamen who used to raid our areas in the past are now conducting the security crackdown, using this as a chance to attack us further,” Jabouri said.

Later the same night, security forces raided a compound containing the homes of 110 university professors and their families. Professor Hameed al-Aathami described what happened: “They dragged us out of our beds as we slept with our wives and children, took us outside, bound our hands and blindfolded us. They beat, cursed and insulted us.”

Dr Salah Bidayat, the dean of the school of law, fired two shots from his licensed gun in the air to get the soldiers’ attention. “They caught him, lay him on the ground and proceeded to beat, kick and curse him in the most aggressive manner and when he explained we were teachers and professors they told him you are all a bunch of asses and terrorists,” Aathami said.

[fooj]

1. "Security forces"???

This is an outrage!

Why aren't those war criminals occupying OUR WHITE HOUSE in jail yet?

[truthisfreedom]

2. Moral of the story: Don't be alive during the bush administration.

If i had $40,000 i wouldn't keep it somewhere where anyone could see it or find it. It would be hidden so well that it would never be found.

[madrchsod]

3. this is`t lost on the "iraqi konfused kid"

- "it's a known fact today that while US soldiers do occasionally rape 15-year-olds and add naked photos of our hairy butts to their family albums, they are still infintely more trustworthy than any Iraqi soldier from anywhere. When an American soldier knocks on your door for a search, you go 'oh thank god' but when Iraqis do the same, you are instantly on your toes."

"The American forces are the only forces that are to be relied upon in Iraq, as sloppy and careless as they are, because they don't have anything personal against Abu Haneefa or Musa al-Kadhim, I may have comitted national blasphemy by saying this, but it's 100% better to be honest than a nationalist hypocritical asswipe like most Arabs and Iraqis are. First step towards healing is diagnosis."

http://ejectiraqikkk.blogspot.com/
Iraqi Konfused Kid

[Journeyman]

4. 'The same militia who raided in the past now conduct the security crackdown. . .'

yeah -- that about sums up the potential success of George's "surge."

[EFerrari]

5. Paging undersecretary Negroponte. Clean up on Aisle 12.