The story has broken that 2 Iraqi Generals are being questioned about the attack.

From what Sgt Batty wrote (The Sandbox)  I wonder if it isn’t the Iraqi Police.  He’s in Karbala and has some pretty interesting boots on the ground accounts.  Mind you he doesn’t say either the Iraqi Police or Iraqi Army are involved.  Sgt. Batty just tells us a couple of stories which occurred recently.

I’m searching everyone who comes into the joint. There is a steady stream of civilians coming into the compound for various legal reasons, and, more worrisome, a whole bunch of IPs in civilian clothes. Now, as any Iraqi vet will tell you, there is not really a standard uniform for the Iraqi Police, other than a vaguely blue shirt. That’s it. No badge. No nothing. Sometimes just a blue collar peeking out above a jacket. Apparently even that is too stringent a dress code for some of these guys, and we have seen our fair share of dudes in jeans and a kaffiyah coming around the corner, brandishing an AK. Hey, whaz up, mistah. Just goin’ to work.

Amazingly, these guys take umbrage when I stop them, and demand some ID, and pat them down. You would have thought that with the security situation the way it is in Iraq, at least the police would understand when we set up some basic procedures. But no. Every other guy protests when I go to stop him: “IP, IP, mistah. No, no.” Some of the ID cards are ancient versions which are no longer issued. Many are expired. Occasionally they have no police identification at all. The cops tell me they left them at home, or forgot them, or something equally asinine. They are all armed, usually with concealed Glock 9 millimeters.

I’ve also started searching the civilian cars that come into the compound, and this evokes the same indignant response. Such was the case with Starsky and Hutch.

Go read the entire posting – GOT THEM IP BLUES

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