Najaf Police Chief Dismissed For

Juan Cole 09/15/2003

Najaf Police Chief Dismissed for Corruption

Haydar Mahdi Matar al-Miyali, the Governor of Najaf, announced Sunday that the city’s police chief, Husayn Yasin al-Juburi, had been arrested on corruption charges. Legal action against him is pending. Other sources said he had been dismissed for poor administration. The dismissal comes two weeks after a huge truck bomb went off in the city, which is holy to Shiites. Note that the first mayor/police chief imposed on Najaf by the US had been a Sunni Baathist officer, who was also dismissed after about a month on corruption charges.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page