From Riverbend

From Riverbend, the Iraqi blogger, via ThinkProgress, via Kevin Drum.

(While watching the scrolling headlines at the bottom of a news program) Suddenly, one of them caught my attention and I sat up straight on the sofa, wondering if I had read it correctly.... The line said:

“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.”

That’s how messed up the country is at this point....The situation is so bad on the security front that the top two ministries in charge of protecting Iraqi civilians cannot trust each other. The Ministry of Defense can’t even trust its own personnel, unless they are “accompanied by American coalition forces”.