IRAQ ORGANISED CRIME
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE MAJORITY of Iraqis were delighted by the fall of Saddam Hussein, witness the banging of shoes on the heads of his fallen statues. But among the happiest were organised criminals who have exploited the lawlessness following the end of his regime. Keith Nuthall reports on a new UN crime probe.BIZARRE decisions were not exactly thin on the ground in Iraq during the brutal reign of Saddam, but one of the strangest had to be the amnesty last October of more than 30,000 Iraqi prisoners, many hardened members of urban crime gangs. This act was odd, ...
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