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Detroit Free Press - United St
07 September 2007
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Iraqi adviser blasts report
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday blasted a U.S. report that criticizes the Iraqi police force, calling it an unacceptable interference in the nation's affairs.
"It is not the duty of the independent committee to ask for changes at the Interior Ministry, especially when it comes to security apparatus," said Yassin Majid.
"This is an Iraqi affair, and we will not accept interference by anyone in such work, whether the Congress or others," he said.
The study, led by retired Marine Gen. James Jones, said that Iraq's security forces will be unable to take control of the nation in the next 18 months. It said the Iraqi National Police is fragile, ill-equipped and so rife with corruption that it should be scrapped entirely.
The police are led by the Ministry of Interior, which the report calls "a ministry in name only" that is "widely regarded as being dysfunctional and sectarian, and suffers from ineffective leadership."
The assessment was expected to factor heavily into Congress' debate on the war, with U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and top commander Gen. David Petraeus due to begin hearings Monday.
Majid noted that al-Maliki's government fired members of security agencies over corruption charges and links to militias and extended that policy to other agencies.
"The al-Maliki government will do this with all state agencies. We will not take dictation from reports," Majid said.
BATTLES, DEATHS: U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft fought suspected Shi'ite militiamen Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people died.
U.S. troops also targeted Sunni militants linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq in raids north of Baghdad, killing six suspected insurgents and detaining 25, the military said.
Bombings, shootings and mortar attacks left at least 28 other Iraqis dead nationwide, including 18 bullet-riddled bodies that were found in Baghdad and south of the city.
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