Former Washington D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey, the lead police expert on the Jones commission, knows all about community suspicion of the boys in blue. Yet, he told Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the distrust he saw directed at the Iraqi National Police was stunning. Maybe that shouldn’t be surprising: corrupt and brutal, and responsive to an Interior Ministry that the commission describes as a “11-story powder keg of factions,” the 25,000 member force, Ramsey disclosed, is a stunning 85 percent Shiite and only 13 percent Sunni.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179978