Interesting news from Iraq via London Times

Seems that some sacked Iraqi police are turning terrorists. Maybe it is time to think of these terrorists not as holy warriors, not as ideological thugs but as ordinary criminals.

A British police chief in Basra has given a warning that Iraqi officers sacked for corruption have turned to terrorism in revenge. Mike Colbourne, Assistant Chief Constable of Bedfordshire but currently the senior police adviser in southern Iraq, said many of those who had been dismissed or had retired were involved in violence.

The bleak assessment after four years of British attempts to convert the Iraqi police into an effective force comes within weeks of the expected handover of the city of Basra to Iraqi security control.

The remainder of the article is here: Sacked officers turning to terror, says police chief,