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Thomas E. Ricks' daily take on national security.

Iraq, the unraveling (XXXI): Iraqi army shootout with Iraqi police

I didn’t see this in my regular newspapers. It happened up in Baqubah. Police took two wounded, army apparently none. I don’t know what it means. Maybe just a personal dispute, maybe more than that. Photo: ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images

By Thomas E. Ricks, a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.

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Middle East and North Africa

November 13, 2009, 5:44 PM

I didn't see this in my regular newspapers. It happened up in Baqubah. Police took two wounded, army apparently none. I don't know what it means. Maybe just a personal dispute, maybe more than that.

I didn’t see this in my regular newspapers. It happened up in Baqubah. Police took two wounded, army apparently none. I don’t know what it means. Maybe just a personal dispute, maybe more than that.

Photo: ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images

Middle East and North Africa

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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