March 5, 2005: American troops often get the feeling they are in the middle of the ultimate gang war. Most of the Iraqi gangs are strictly about crime. Often, the crime is extortion and kidnapping, two techniques also used by the terrorists trying to bring the government down. The terrorists demand that people not work for the government (including providing information), or else. The gangsters demand money, and not to call the police, or else. When foreigners are kidnapped, the first thing you have to figure out is whether the victim was grabbed for ransom, or for political reasons. Increasingly, it's always for money, with politics often used in an effort to throw off the police investigation. The criminal and political gangs frequently work together, and the gangsters will help out with the terrorism, if the price is right.Of course, it's well known that prison guards in the U.S. often develop myriad behavior problems if not corruption. The left would think you dim enough to use that as justification to free the thugs -- in both Iraq and the U.S. of course.
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In the past, Americans would pick up everyone in the vicinity of a raid. But Iraqi cops conduct, or are along, on most raids now, and they are able to spot the innocents, and leave them alone. Arrested Iraqis are in despair if Americans haul them off to prison, because the American guards cannot be bribed, although there are constant attempts. American prison officials are wondering how long it will be until Iraqi corruption taints American soldiers.
You, on the other hand, know you don't want your son or daughter killed and are willing to spend the money on the prison guards. And both you and the prison guards are willing to make the deal.
Nuff said.
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