Profiling, Iraqi Style

Iraq orders police to round up beggars and mentally ill

The U.S. military and the Iraqi government have claimed that Sunni insurgents led by al-Qaida in Iraq are increasingly trying to use Iraq's most vulnerable populations as suicide bombers to avoid raising suspicions or being searched at checkpoints that guard access to many markets, neighborhoods and bridges in the capital.

And so we must lock them all up. For their protection. And ours.