Iraq

(McClatchy) "On the fourth anniversary of the war he peddled as a historic liberation campaign, Ahmad Chalabi on Tuesday sat in his fortress-style villa in Baghdad and pondered what might have been and how it all went wrong."

(BBC) "An Iraqi police chief cannot trust one third of his officers because they are loyal to illegal militias, he has told the BBC."

(BBC) More on that same interview/trip. Infiltration and hiring illiterates up to colonel because they have connections.

(MSNBC) A restatement of the finding that 1/3-1/2 of all Iraqi soldiers aren't there, "ghost troops."