Iraqi VP says police help prevent food, medicine from reaching Sunnis

Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes

The Iraqi national police has helped militias prevent medicine, food and fuel from getting to an area south of Baghdad, and even participated in slayings, Iraq’s vice president wrote in a letter to the top U.S. commander in Iraq. In the Dec. 24 letter to Gen. George Casey, Tarik al-Hashemi, a Sunni, says residents of the Madaein district, which includes Salman Pak, "are victims of a scheme aiming to restore this district to be under Persian Iranian predominance," specifically by an Iranian regime called Ali al-Shawki...

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