For Iraq police, staying alive is goal
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The 22-year-old police officer wraps a black scarf around his face when on patrol. He sleeps in the station and sees his new bride only a few hours a month. He watches his colleagues get shot and blown to pieces and wonders if he will be next.
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American commanders are fully aware that Iraq's insurgents exploit their policy of employing locals on U.S. military bases but insist the practice will not stop, though some security measures may be tightened.
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At a time when Iraqi insurgents are targeting local police officers and recruits for attack, the United States has raised by one-third -- to 135,000 -- the size of the Iraqi police force it says will be needed to help secure the country, according to information the administration has provided to Congress.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he is determined to keep up Italy&#39;s efforts in Iraq despite the execution of an Italian hostage.
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At least 22 officers have been killed in attacks on police targets in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar.
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A report by an independent commission says that it will be at least 12 to 18 months before Iraqâs army and police can take charge of the countryâs security.
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Police and Iraqi National Guardsmen say that they have received more tips from the public, resulting in more arrests and greater effectiveness in their efforts to weaken the violent insurgency rocking the country.
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The U.S. military vowed on Friday to do  everything possible to safeguard Iraq's Jan. 30 election,  undeterred by the deaths of nine troops in the deadliest day  for American forces since an attack on a U.S. base last month.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group of Iraqi policemen returning from training has been kidnapped in the western part of the country, according to police.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Sunni Arab Iraqis and U.S. forces in Anbar province vowed on Friday to keep fighting al Qaeda after the assassination of a tribal leader who worked with Americans to create one of Iraq's few security success stories.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- Real power on Iraq's streets often lies in the hands of men like Sadi Ahmed Pire.
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PRAGUE- Policemen from the police Rapid Deployment Unit (URNA) will continue to guard the Czech embassy in Baghdad, the government decided today.
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WASHINGTON -- The day's mission was straightforward: Show the local Iraqi police how to escort a convoy of new recruits from Baqubah to the police academy in Sulymaniyah , about 125 miles to the north.
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For the Second Battalion, Eighth Marines, the monotonous cycle of life sometimes keeps an Iraqi police station from being overrun.
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Iraq's Interior Ministry said on Thursday it would not disband the national police despite a report by an independent U.S. panel that will recommend scrapping and reorganizing the force.
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WASHINGTON - Teaching local officials in Iraq to govern themselves and provide their citizens with basic services will take "years of steady engagement." It also will rely heavily on the US government's ability to recruit skilled civilians, investigators told a House panel yesterday.
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Pursuing the insurgents is hard enough. But Iraq's top general has to walk a difficult line of battling militias without alienating their political leaders