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2,000 Iraqis graduate from counter-insurgency training BAGHDAD — Nearly 2,000 Iraqi police cadets have completed a training course for counter-insurgency missions. The Iraqi police have graduated 1,938 specialized officers after an intensive five-week training course. Officials said the cadets, who graduated on Dec. 30, were all assigned counter-insurgency missions. Of the graduates, 1,190 are to serve in the new public order police, which focuses on counter-insurgency. Another 748 will become members of the new mechanized police, who will travel in armored personnel carriers and support missions against Sunni and Shi'ite insurgents. The public order police will provide security in cities where the police force has collapsed. They included Fallujah, Mosul, Ramadi and Samara in the Sunni Triangle. The Interior Ministry has already established the 8th Mechanized Police Brigade. The brigade, equipped with Soviet-origin BTR wheeled armored vehicles, is meant to fight insurgents and major criminals. "These units require more training and more advanced equipment," said U.S. Army Col. Lawrence Pippins, Civilian Police Assistance Training Team program manager for counterterrorism special operations. "However, once deployed to areas of unrest, they will be effective because of their training, motivation and morale and dedication to their country." The cadets who completed training would be deployed throughout Iraq. Over the past few weeks more than 1,000 trained officers have been outfitted, equipped and deployed in support of security operations. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
