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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Switched Off in Basra - New York Times `

Steven Vincent, wrote for the (July 31) New York Times: "An Iraqi police lieutenant, who for obvious reasons asked to remain anonymous, confirmed to me the widespread rumors that a few police officers are perpetrating many of the hundreds of assassinations - mostly of former Baath Party members - that take place in Basra each month. He told me that there is even a sort of "death car": a white Toyota Mark II that glides through the city streets, carrying off-duty police officers in the pay of extremist religious groups to their next assignment."

Vincent himself was killed less than a week later by the same police force: www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/international/middleeast/03cnd-iraq.html
# posted by atz at 8/06/2005 02:27:00 PM
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