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US rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure: Remodeling police after our own
• New York TimesBy the time officials in Baghdad intervened 9 months later, the corruption in Basra had gotten so bad that the 135-member internal affairs unit, set up to police the police, was operating as a ring of extortionists, kidnappers and killers.