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...Kamal Aziz, a 29-year veteran of the Saddam-era police corps, spent a few weeks retraining last May, learning American-style arrest techniques and the basic art of urban warfare. "It was almost the same training as we had before," he says, standing guard outside the Yarmuk police station in west Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have yet to get uniforms or the Glock pistols promised...
...democratic Iraq. Already some Iraqi police complain that Americans are hindering their work by insisting on such things as due process. "If they want to see a change, they should let us operate by the old laws of the police," says Lieut. Marwan Hussein, at the Thawra police station in the heart of Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood...
...think the advantage of relying more on locals is that Arabic speakers who know the people and the terrain would do a better job uncovering threats in advance than Americans. "We understand the minds of these killers," says Lieut. Colonel Salam Zajey, commander of Baghdad's al-Bayaa police station, where 15 people died in one of last week's bombings. "We lived with them for 20 years. We trained them. That should help us in fighting them...
...visit to al-Bayaa station last week, Baghdad police chief Hassan al-Obeidi told his men, "Look, if we can get control of the streets and bring back security here, we can tell the Americans goodbye. Nobody would be happier to say it than I." And no one would be happier to hear it than the occupiers...
...welcome at the weekly practice sessions. Tuesdays, from 8 p.m. on the Astroturf pitch behind the primary school at Námestí Jirího z Lobkovic 121/22, Prague 3 (Metro: Green line, Skalka stop). • In Tokyo try Aoyama Park (three minutes walk from Nogizaka Station, Chiyoda line), which is popular with expat amateurs on the weekends. Saturday morning is the best time to show up. Local team Vertex is always looking for new blood - it practices every weekend, but time and venue vary (contact vertex@mlc9.infoseek.co.jp). • You can be fined for playing near Berlin's Reichstag...