CPA_Infrastructure_Reconstruction_doc_63.pdf

LAW ANDORDERINIRAQ Question: There is a temporary vacuum of control in areas that had just been liberated if not the United States or Britain, who is there to meet the policing needs of Iraq? Answer: • In many instances throughout the conflict, Iraqi troops collapsed and fled very rapidly, often before the U.S. military even arrived on the scene. Those coalition forces arriving in urban areas had as their first priority the mission of engaging the enemy; as combat operations were still ongoing.....