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New York Times: Iraq chasing thousands of contractors with the U.S. Embassy to prove its sovereignty
On: Tue 01/17/2012 10:28
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New York Times said the U.S. said yesterday that Iraqi authorities started to prosecute and the harassment and detention of foreign contractors in Iraq, who are estimated to number in the thousands, in recent weeks.
The newspaper quoted sources in the sector as saying that among these contractors Americans working for the embassy American in Baghdad, which was considered an indication of the desire of the Iraqi government to express its influence and tighten its grip to show that it is a sovereign government, following the withdrawal of the last units of the U.S. troops from Iraq last month.
The newspaper pointed out that most of the arrests occurred in the Baghdad airport and at checkpoints around Baghdad, and after that became the Iraqi authorities questioned invariably documents such contractors, including visas and permits to carry arms, and the powers of driving and vehicles in certain ways.
The paper says that despite the lack of charges to any contractor so far, he spent some of these from a few hours and about three weeks in detention.
the other hand, quoted by the Christian Science Monitor reported that military experts Americans questioning sincerity of American officials to punish soldiers who committed abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, including cases of committing troops to violations of the sanctity of and dignity of the dead bodies of the movement of Taliban Afghanistan, despite the language of rebuke strong used by the U.S. Department of Defense.
They are reporting the U.S. to prosecute American soldiers in cases of violations similar to the half-hearted and non-deterrent, pointing out that the use of some senior U.S. military officials vocabulary suggests reprimanded some of the Marines who video detection are urinating on the bodies of Afghan commitment in addition to the U.S. Navy to conduct investigations into the incident so heinous and all is just a passing rebuke.
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