A Day in Diwaniya: The Police

Our mission, on a daily basis is to check up on assigned local police stations in Diwaniya, offer training and logistical support. In most cases I go inside with the portion of our squad that enters, but today at the Nada IP station, with my new camera in tow, I "stayed back with the vehicles," and took some shots. This girl and her sister were the only two to come and visit our trucks with the curiosity that usually surrounds us in the minutes after arriving.
The woman making an expression with her hands next to the coolest scooter ever, talking to a plain clothes policeman, was just removed from the station after storming in angrily right after our squad members entered. Most of the suicide bombers that are still active in Iraq are females and this got the attention of soldiers the IPs and everyone else...except the kids.