If you read the lying, Zionist-controlled press, that's what you would think.
I'm so tired of the over-the-top lying, readers.
"Female guards' status less than secure; Concerns grow over safety of officers' tasks" by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times | June 15, 2008
BAGHDAD - The two women couldn't be less alike: Melath Dulaimi is a single woman in her mid-30s who wears a knee-length skirt and refuses to cover her hair. Lekaa Mohammed is a retiring widow draped in a navy blue veil and concealing robes.
But when the US military advertised for women to join its neighborhood guard program last fall, both answered the call.
"Iraqi women are the same as Iraqi men," said Dulaimi, the businesslike leader of 42 female security guards in Baghdad's blast-scarred Adhamiya section. "We want to take back our neighborhood."
The women work in pairs, frisking female visitors for weapons and explosives at schools, hospitals, banks, and government offices.
The program was set up to counter a growing threat of female suicide bombers.
What SHIT!!! I simply DON'T BELIEVE IT, readers (see links below).
I'm tired of cover-up propaganda being passed off as "news," folks!
But even as the response from women has been enthusiastic, it has faced resistance from tradition-bound community leaders who believe that fighting insurgents is men's work.
So far, 500 women have joined the more than 90,000 Sons of Iraq, a mostly Sunni Arab guard force that helped drive out insurgents from some of the country's most dangerous areas. Unlike their male counterparts, the new Daughters of Iraq do not carry weapons, and they operate in just a handful of places in Baghdad, south of the capital and in Anbar province.
Hey, the war promoting Zionist press has to find something good to report -- even if it is shit!
US commanders are keen to expand the program, but such efforts would require delicate negotiations with the communities where the women would operate. And the Iraqi government has made it clear that it has no intention of retaining female recruits when US forces eventually hand over responsibility for the neighborhood guards.
When is that going to be? Never?
Army Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Broadwater, who commands the US troops in Adhamiya, a walled-in Sunni enclave surrounded by Shi'ite Muslim neighbors, would like to assign women to checkpoints and markets, which are among the favored targets of suicide bombers. But neighborhood leaders say those places are far too exposed.
"In our culture, we can't have women standing in public on a checkpoint," said Riyad abu Mohammed, deputy commander of Adhamiya's 843 Sons of Iraq. "It isn't good for us, for her, or her family."
Although Dulaimi says her two brothers encouraged her to join, other members do not hide their displeasure at the idea of female recruits.
"A woman can't do this work," snapped one of Abu Mohammed's deputies, who gave his name as Sabbah. "It is dangerous."
Yup, bunch of sexist Muslims. Pfffffttt!
Maybe they just love their women and children and don't want them hurt, 'eh, Zionist press?
US commanders have encountered similar obstacles when they have asked the Interior Ministry to hire more policewomen. Critics blame the rise of religious conservatives for the government's apparent reluctance to tackle the threat of female suicide bombers.
Yeah, thanks for the liberation Bush -- if you believe this type of propaganda that is!
There have been at least 21 such attacks since November, according to US military figures.... The US military believes insurgents are turning to women because they raise less suspicion and cannot be searched by men in an Islamic society.
Army Lieutenant General Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of day-to-day operations in Iraq, was diplomatic about the frustrations expressed by some of his officers.
"It is a cultural issue," he said. "It'll be one of these things that will take some time to work through. They're a little slow in letting women be able to do some jobs. We've got to break through some barriers."
I thought we were bringing them DEMOCRACY, so shouldn't the Iraqis decide that?
This really is about DESTROYING ISLAM, isn't it?
Adhamiya was once one of the more progressive Baghdad neighborhoods. It is populated largely by retired military officers and other professionals who made up the elite of Saddam Hussein's secular Baath Party.
Many of its women were once employed as teachers or administrators in government offices across the city. But when the bombing of a revered Shi'ite shrine in Samarra unleashed revenge killings against Sunnis in 2006, most retreated to their homes, too afraid to leave the neighborhood.
Yeah, about that:
Islam's 9/11
CUI BONO?
Mohammed's husband was one of the victims of the wave of violence. She was left to support five children on her own. She said her job searching women at a busy hospital had provided her "a good opportunity to help my family and my country."
Yup, the loss of their husbands and loved ones was a GREAT OPPORTUNITY!
Also see:Occupation Iraq: Widows' Embrace
And I've about had it with the Zionist racism in the "news" coverage, readers!
The stink shit American papers are ILL!!!!
Other Adhamiya men lost their lives fighting US forces, or were killed by fellow Sunnis from the militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq, which imposed a reign of terror in the neighborhood. Officials say they have lost count of neighborhood widows, who make up many of the Daughters of Iraq. Others signed up because their husbands were disabled or lost jobs in the fighting.
Yeah, sure, "Al-CIA-Duh," right!
Pfffffffffffttttttttt!!!!!!!
The female recruits undergo the same background checks as their male counterparts, and their details are entered into the same database. Their salary is also the same, about $300 a month.
The women's proudest moment came in March, when thousands of people from across Baghdad, including the country's Shi'ite prime minister, converged in Adhamiya to celebrate the prophet Mohammed's birthday. The Daughters of Iraq were out in force, patting down women."Yup, their PROUDEST MOMENT!
Seriously, readers, what a HELL HOLE we have turned Iraq into!
Occupation Iraq: Israelis Killing U.S. TroopsOccupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Al-CIA-Duh
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
Salvador Option
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
How much more evidence do you need, readers?
