JohnH wrote:



Chuck, have you seen this story on any news other than Fox? The paste is from Al
Jazeera:

Iraqi police make large-scale arrests



The suspects, all Iraqis, were being held for questioning at a Baghdad police
department, he said, noting that most were criminals who had been arrested
during the old government and pardoned by Saddam Hussein on the eve of the US
invasion.


"Most of the people we caught yesterday were professional crooks," he alleged.

One killed

Police colonel Daud Sulaiman, in charge of the hotspot patch, said one person
was killed during the sweep.


"Several criminals, including women, were arrested and one of them was killed
while trying to resist police," he said.


"This is the largest operation for the interior ministry since the fall of
Saddam Hussein"

Colonel Adnan Abd al-Rahman,
Interior Ministry spokesman


To me, this was pretty good news. It showed the Iraqi police doing something
besides running scared. I looked for the story on the other major networks and
could find nothing. I found nothing in the Washington Post.


We have enough problems in this country with our police framing and
rounding up suspects to make it appear as if they are doing
something...so you're ready to accept the claims of the unelected Iraqi
government that the folks they rounded up were indeed criminals? Maybe
some of them were merely political opponents.

Yeah, the Iraqi police are doing something...that sounds a lot like what
the Iraqi police under Saddam did. Why are you so willing to accept the
PR of the Iraqi regime?

If you didin't find the news report in the Post, perhaps the editors
there weren't able to vet it properly.

Not everyone has a mind damaged by a career in the military; some of us
retain our scepticism no matter what.