Maliki's Office Is Seen Behind Purge in Forces
Some Commanders Had Pursued Militias
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, April 30, 2007; Page A01
BAGHDAD, April 29 -- A department of the Iraqi prime minister's office is playing a leading role in the arrest and removal of senior Iraqi army and national police officers, some of whom had apparently worked too aggressively to combat violent Shiite militias, according to U.S. military officials in Baghdad.
