{"id":2374,"date":"2006-02-21T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2006-02-21T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T13:56:00","slug":"enduring-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/02\/21\/09\/56\/enduring-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Enduring Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 1,500-member Iraqi police force with close ties to Shiite militia groups has emerged as a focus of investigations into suspected death squads working within the country’s Interior Ministry … “Who knows who they all are? Nobody controls them but the minister,” the [US] officer said, referring to Interior Minister Bayan Jabr … a Shiite with close ties to the Badr Brigade, a paramilitary group, has been at the center of allegations of abuse at the hands of Iraqi security forces. The minister’s notoriety rose last year as the bodies of hundreds of men mostly Sunni Arabs started appearing in sewage treatment plants, garbage dumps and desert ravines. Most of the bodies showed signs of torture and execution-style killings. Many families of the deceased said their kin had last been seen in the back of a police vehicle.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 1,500-member Iraqi police force with close ties to Shiite militia groups has emerged as a focus of investigations into suspected death squads working within the country’s Interior Ministry … “Who knows who they...<\/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-2374","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