HAWIJAH, Iraq, April 29 (UPI) -- U.S. troops training Iraqis in policing and security measures are encountering trainees who use their new skills to attack them, The Washington Post reports.
Most recently in the predominantly Sunni Muslim town of Hawijah, 175 miles north of Baghdad, a U.S. convoy discovered a fishing line strung across a road linked to an old Russian artillery shell. Not far off were four U.S.-trained Iraqi policemen who claimed they knew nothing about it, the report said.
"There's two kinds of Iraqis here, the ones who help us and the ones who shoot us, and there's an awful lot of them doing both," said Staff Sgt. Jason Hoover, 26. "Yes, it's frustrating. But we can't just stop working with them."
Last week, a raging fire erupted nearby from a sabotaged oil pipeline 50 feet from a police checkpoint. And earlier this month, a U.S. sniper team caught 14 policemen placing roadside bombs in the nearby town of Riyadh.
U.S. military police say more than 60 other police officers are on a watch list of suspected insurgent collaborators.
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