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Article: Former New York police commissioner brings his own style to policing Iraq
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- AP Worldstream
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- August 3, 2003
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Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
Bernard Kerik was dubbed the "Baghdad Terminator" after he summarily
dismissed a newly reinstated Iraqi official who turned out to be a
member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
A British journalist happened to be there and the ex-New York police
commissioner had a new unofficial title.
"If you're going to criticize me for terminating Baath Party members
go ahead. I like that," Kerik tells an Associated Press reporter accompanying
him on his day's rounds. "You can't please everyone. We're in Iraq;
this is a war zone. Perhaps you can do things nicely, but there's
times you can't."
Kerik's brusque manner, rarely ...