what a f'ing mess

Ten Iraqi policemen killed in five Baghdad attacks BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 10 Iraqi policemen were shot dead in five separate attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry official said. In one attack, four policemen on patrol were killed by insurgents with automatic weapons on a major highway in the eastern part of the capital. The attacks all took place between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. (0330-0500 GMT). In the southern Baghdad district of Doura a police captain and his driver were killed, and in nearby Zafaraniya an officer in the Interior Ministry's Major Crimes Unit was shot dead in his car. Two police officers were gunned down in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, and gunmen shot dead one policeman and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in the poor northern suburb of al-Shu'ula. The government expects Iraqi police and security forces to take over security from U.S. forces once they can stand up to guerrillas on their own. But Iraqi forces can barely protect themselves against the numerous guerrilla attacks which have killed hundreds of their comrades.