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Article: When The Good Guys Are The Bad Guys.(Iraq)(Iraqi Army)
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- Newsweek
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- July 28, 2008
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Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh; With Reporting By Hussam Ali
The Iraqi Army has regained control from militias in Basra. Now it faces a new foe: the government.
Mohammed Waeli was furious. The powerful governor of Basra had heard that Iraqi Army soldiers were looking to use city bulldozers to clean up the streets of his unruly metropolis. If anyone was going to get credit for improving life in Basra, he was. In a late-night phone call last month, he tore into the top Army commander in Basra, Gen. Mohammed Huweidi. "We want to use [the bulldozers] to serve the city," the general protested. "We're not asking any money for this service." Waeli wasn't ...