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Jeremiah Blocker – The Enemy Within

Jeremiah Blocker describes his time in Northern Iraq with the police transition team. He was embedded with the Iraqi police, most of whom were former Baathists and which had been infiltrated by insurgents. He tells of two blue on green attacks, one at a police station and the other a gym, both perpetrated by Iraqi police. He describes the injuries and casualties of the aftermath of these attacks.