Heralded Iraq Police Academy a 'Disaster'
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 -- A $75 million project to build the largest police academy in Iraq has been so grossly mismanaged that the campus now poses health risks to recruits and might need to be partially demolished, U.S. investigators have found.
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Iraqi police suffered two mortal blows in attacks that left at least 59 people dead and more than 120 injured. The major attack - a car bomb blast near a Baghdad police station, was claimed by an al Qaida-linked terror group.
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BAGHDAD -- About 4,000 Iraqi police have been killed and more than 8,000 wounded in the past two years, the US commander in charge of police training said yesterday, but he said the force's performance was improving and officials are working to weed out militiamen.
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A car bomb exploded outside a police headquarters in a crowded district of Baghdad, where hundreds of recruits had been lined up outside.
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Iraqi police suffered two massive blows in attacks that left at least 59 people dead and more than 120 injured. The major attack - a car bomb blast near a Baghdad police station - was claimed by an al Qaida-linked terror group.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 4, 2004 - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb Saturday outside a police academy in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians were leaving for the day, killing at least 10 people, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A large explosion hit outside a police academy in downtown Baghdad on Sunday, killing eight people, officials said.
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Iraq&#39;s US-backed government said on Tuesday that &quot;major neglect&quot; by its American-led allies led to a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad  Allawi said Tuesday "major neglect" by U.S.-led forces led to  the murder of 49 Iraqi army recruits by insurgents this  weekend.
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Tuesday&#39;s massive car bomb attack on a Baghdad police station left a scene of devastation and carnage in a busy and popular area of the city.
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WASHINGTON -- The contractor that botched construction of a $75 million police academy in Baghdad so badly that human waste dripped from the ceilings has produced shoddy work on 13 out of 14 projects reviewed by federal auditors, the top official monitoring Iraq's reconstruction told Congress yesterday.
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At least 10 Iraqi policemen have been killed after a car bomb exploded at a police station in western Iraq used by American marines.
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Iraq's Interior Ministry is regarded as "sectarian" and "dysfunctional" and the National Police should be "disbanded and reorganized," according to an independent report obtained by CNN.
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At least 21 Iraqi policemen were killed by an armed group that stormed a police station Sunday in a small town located 200 kilometres west of Baghdad, a police officer said.
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Â· Britain alarmed by critics in US administration Â· Ministers deny mission in southern Iraq has failed
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Two senior members of the House Armed Services Committee and several former Defense Department officials yesterday criticized poor U.S. training and deployment of the Iraqi army and police as a major reason the Baghdad government cannot provide security to its people.
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Horrific evidence of systemic abuse of special needs children at state-run orphanage in Baghdad.