Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Media: AFP
Byline: n/a
Date: 08 October 2006
Body:
BAGHDAD, Oct 8, 2006 (AFP) - A senior officer in the Iraqi police internal
affairs department was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday, just five days after
an entire police brigade was accused of colluding with sectarian death
squads.
Security officials identified the victim as Colonel Tamer Salman, assistant
to the director of police internal affairs, an increasingly important unit
at a time when the government is under pressure to purge disloyal officers.
Iraq's fledgling police force has been accused of taking sides in the
country's increasingly brutal sectarian war, with Shiite-dominated units
said to allow militia fighters to attack Baghdad's Sunni minority.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered an entire brigade of the
National Police be taken out of Baghdad for retraining. The brigade's
commander and one of the batallion commanders were relieved from duty.
US officials subsequently revealed that not only was the brigade allowing
Shiite militias to operate in certain neighbourhoods, but that the
commander was implicated in a mass kidnapping operation.
It was not immediately clear whether Salman's death was linked to his work,
and police officers are also often targeted by Sunni insurgents.
More than 4,000 Iraqi police have been killed over the past two years.
Byline: n/a
Date: 08 October 2006
Body:
BAGHDAD, Oct 8, 2006 (AFP) - A senior officer in the Iraqi police internal
affairs department was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday, just five days after
an entire police brigade was accused of colluding with sectarian death
squads.
Security officials identified the victim as Colonel Tamer Salman, assistant
to the director of police internal affairs, an increasingly important unit
at a time when the government is under pressure to purge disloyal officers.
Iraq's fledgling police force has been accused of taking sides in the
country's increasingly brutal sectarian war, with Shiite-dominated units
said to allow militia fighters to attack Baghdad's Sunni minority.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered an entire brigade of the
National Police be taken out of Baghdad for retraining. The brigade's
commander and one of the batallion commanders were relieved from duty.
US officials subsequently revealed that not only was the brigade allowing
Shiite militias to operate in certain neighbourhoods, but that the
commander was implicated in a mass kidnapping operation.
It was not immediately clear whether Salman's death was linked to his work,
and police officers are also often targeted by Sunni insurgents.
More than 4,000 Iraqi police have been killed over the past two years.