{"id":2350,"date":"2005-12-06T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2005-12-06T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:45:00","slug":"to-protect-and-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/12\/06\/08\/45\/to-protect-and-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"To Protect and Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"

The [Sadr] Al Mahdi army has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers working in northeast Baghdad were affiliated with Al Mahdi … “The Mahdi army’s got the Iraqi police and Badr’s got the commandos,” the high-ranking U.S. military officer said. “Everybody’s got their own death squads.”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The [Sadr] Al Mahdi army has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t