Crucial Advice for Secret Policemen

Found by Paul William Roberts in Baghdad, Iraq

I spent most of 2003 in Iraq covering the invasion for Harper’s Magazine and the CBC. I found this poster in the rubble of a Mukharbharat (Secret Police) training center in Baghdad, April 21, 2003. The Arabic text reads: “When interrogating a suspect, do not leave your gun, wallet, and I.D. card on the coffee table.” Ba’athist ideology in a nutshell.