Iraqi officials can't win. If they attempt de-Badrification, they are accused of re-Baathification. For much of the past year Iraq's Sunnis have accused the Shia-led government of stacking the security forces with Shia militants—such as the Badr Corps and the Mahdi Army—using the police and ministerial guards as weapons in the country's sectarian warfare. The interior minister, Jawad al-Bolani, has not, they say, done enough to purge officers with ties to Shia militias. Now Shia parliamentarians are levelling the same charge against the Sunnis, calling for Mr Bolani's resignation on the ground that he is packing the police with ex-members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party.
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