Iraqi special police: Doing things their way

the latest really weird story about how the special police of Iraq only changed bosses, not methods/attitudes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/international/middleeast/13commandos.html?

Iraq's widely feared police commandos were struggling on Tuesday to explain how at least 10 Sunni Arab men and youths, one only 17, suffocated after a commando unit seized them from a hospital emergency ward and locked them in a police van in summer temperatures exceeding 110 degrees.

For the commandos, many of them veterans of Saddam Hussein's army, police and intelligence units, the incident was the latest in a long series of incidents in which they have been accused of using brutal techniques learned during Mr. Hussein's years of terror. Doctors who witnessed the victims being dragged from the hospital ward identified the government men as members of the notorious First Brigade of the commandos, but General Flaieh said that the unit involved was a separate police paramilitary force known as the Special Security Force.
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a pretty decent article that lays out the claims of all sides (seems everyone is lying).

but then again, we all get a nice recipe for "baked suspected insurgent", even if we don't know any details on the tenderizing.

"But in the end, this is an Iraqi war, and the Iraqis will fight it in their own way," the (american) officer said

The police officer added, "What happened to those men from Abu Ghraib was a crime against the Iraqi people. When their relatives arrived to claim the bodies, I heard them saying many bad things about the police. With crimes like this, it's not hard to see why the insurgents keep on attacking the police. Those in authority should do something to stop it."
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Its so nice to know that our young men and women died so that sadistic thugs like these can keep terrorizing the locals.