"It has been known fact for some time that the Interior Ministry police, security units, and forces are corrupt, are penetrated."
--Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, implying that the Mahdi Army is responsible for the kidnapping of the British contractors. (Yes, the foreign minister said that about his own government.) Zebari didn't mention that the main party long alleged to have "penetrated" the ministry is the Badr Brigade of SCIRI (now SICI), whose member Bayan Jabr used to run it when the death squads emerged. The Kurds are allied with SCIRI.