Attention Ulooj, are you ready for 400,000 new Iraqi rebels? Your puny
coalition of ~170,000 Cru$aders is no match for the will of the ENTIRE
MIDDLE-EAST. Even if you defeat all of these Iraqis, you still face
hundreds of thousands more from surrounding countries.

Get out of Iraq, before U$ troops are MASSACRED like Custer, or the LOSERS
at the Alamo.

You have been warned...

Shiite Uprising Cows Iraqi Cops
Fox Republican News

BAGHDAD, Iraq - During this week's uprising, Iraqi police have abandoned
stations or stood by while gunmen roamed the streets, raising concerns
about their role in a future Iraq.

In the southern city of Najaf, a policeman watched helplessly on Thursday
as a pickup truck carrying a dozen heavily armed Shiite militiamen went
past his police station -- already in the militia's hands.

"Look, how can we control such a situation?" he told an Associated Press
reporter.

The policeman, who refused to give his name, said that if a cleric issues

religious ruling calling for it, "I will immediately leave the police
service. ... We came to serve this city, but now we have become targets."

In many cities, the unexpected strength of a Shiite Muslim militia known

the al-Mahdi Army -- now in full or partial control of at least three
cities in the south -- has cowed the police force that U.S. administrators
are counting on to maintain security in the future Iraq.

The Iraqi interior minister, who is in charge of police, resigned Thursday
and complained of the divided loyalties among the nationwide force of
75,000.

"The coalition appoints policemen, clerics appoint policemen, as do
political parties and militias. The same thing with promotions. All these
things led to a lack of security," Nuri al-Badran told journalists in
Baghdad.

Iraq's police force was started from scratch by the U.S.-led coalition
after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime, but a lack of resources

unity means it remains largely ineffective in the face of better-armed
gunmen.

Policemen across the country complain that they don't enjoy the trust of
the Americans and that local communities view them with suspicion. In some
provincial towns, they're also reluctant to do battle with relatives or
fellow tribesmen.

In Sadr City, a Baghdad neighborhood that's home to almost 2 million
Shiites, policemen abandoned three stations to regroup in a fourth during
clashes between U.S. forces and followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr.

Maj. Gen. Martin Dempsey, the U.S. commander responsible for security in
Baghdad, gave a mixed assessment of the police performance during Sunday's
battle, in which he lost eight soldiers.

Some officers showed bravery and fought alongside the Americans, while
others chose to stand aside, he said.

In Falljuah -- where Marines are battling Sunni insurgents -- police were
conducting operations with U.S. forces, said Gen. Richard B. Myers,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But, he said, "There are other
instances where Iraqi forces have not been as aggressive."

In Sadr City, three police officers led by a colonel sat alongside clerics
at a reviewing stand while thousands of militiamen filed past in a parade
on Saturday.

Al-Sadr makes no effort to conceal the cooperation between his militiamen
and the police in Najaf, where he is based.

"I would like to thank my honest brothers in the Iraqi police who are
cooperating with the Iraqi people," he said in a statement Thursday. "This
ordeal has shown that all the Iraqi people are united."

Police appeared to have more control farther south in the towns of
Nasiriyah and Amarah, where al-Sadr followers have battled Italian and
British troops. Residents said an understanding was reached between Shiite
clerics loyal to al-Sadr and the Italians in Nasiriyah.

In the two towns, police patrolled the streets normally. Clusters of al-
Sadr militiamen were also out in public, but unarmed.

In Basra, police agreed Thursday to continue to maintain security provided
that British troops stay out of the heart of the city, according to police
chief Brig. Mohammed Kadhem al-Ali.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said American troops need to step

training of Iraqis, but added the number of Iraqi police deaths shows the
local forces are pulling their weight.

"I believe that since Sept. 1, according to the reporting we have, more
Iraqi security forces have been killed than coalition forces, which
suggests that the Iraqi security forces are engaged and doing things, and
not sitting back in their barracks," he said Wednesday.

But some Iraqis aren't so sure.

In the mainly Sunni neighborhood of al-Azamiyah in Baghdad, police
abandoned their station Monday night when a band of local gunmen joined by
al-Sadr militiamen from an area across the Tigris river advanced on the
building.

"The police just left," said Qusai Abdel-Sattar, a retired accountant who
lives in al-Azamiyah. "They did not want a fight."




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