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ANARCHY IN STREETS REPORTED
When US troops took Safwan on the second day of the war, their officials reported that the first town they had occupied in southern Iraq had given them a warm welcome.
Since then, though, the mood in Safwan has become hostile and anarchic. After members of the government administration fled, gangs of looters took to the streets. Youths began to appear as if from nowhere, to lob bricks and stones at passing cars. But nobody in the British or American forces feels able to take responsibility.
The UK's Colonel Paul Stanley in Umm Qasr, says: "We are simply lacking the people. Military police are more desperately needed in the north."
(Financial Times as reported in Google News)