Isbn: 9781591025559 - under the gun in iraq: my year training the iraqi police (8 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book Robert Cole--a retired California police officer hired by DynCorp as an international police trainer--presents a vivid account of the challenges of training the Iraqis to handle their own security. In blunt, everyday language, Cole gives the reader an unusually candid and often hair-raising glimpse into reality at the street level as he and his colleagues navigate the dangerous sectors of Baghdad, Tikrit, and Kirkuk, dodging explosions and bullets aimed at them by young, Iraqi, wannabe heroes. Cole describes situations not shown in the media: men in their sixties being hired as policemen, Iraqi detectives who extract information from people by ramming toothpicks under their fingernails, officers suggesting that the best way to subdue potential suspects who flee is by shooting them in the back, police hunkered down in their barracks who refuse to patrol neighborhoods for fear of violence, an enemy that easily blends into a population armed to the teeth with loaded AK-47s, and the routine frustrations of cultural and language barriers to communication. This book is essential reading for all Americans seeking an honest understanding of the dire situation in Iraq.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorRobert Cole was a police officer for over 25 years. He retired from the force in East Palo Alto, California where he was one of the commanders that helped bring the city back from its status as the murder capital of th.