From Baghdad to Sydney

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SYDNEY — A former advisor to the Iraq police force working as part of the US and Australian occupation forces will be the next person in charge of supervising police responses to political protests in NSW. NSW police minister Carl Scully announced on March 28 that Superintendent Nick Kaldas will be taking over as head of the Counter-Terrorism and Public Order Management unit. The unit consists of 100 specially trained riot police and backed-up by another 1200 officers.

Dale Mills

From Green Left Weekly, April 5, 2006.
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