Baghdad brigade suspended on suspicion of operating death squads
The Iraqi Interior Ministry has suspended an entire Iraqi police brigade on suspicions that some members may have permitted, or even participated in, death squad killings, American military and Iraqi government officials said Wednesday.
The move was seen as the furthest Iraqi officials have ever come toward tackling the festering problem of militias thought to be operating within the ranks of its own largely Shiite forces.
The suspension involved the transfer of about 800 special police commandos out of their base in the Aalam neighborhood in western Baghdad to a training site north of the capital. The troops were not disarmed, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman, but two of their most senior commanders were detained.
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