The U.S. government is warning Iraq that it may be forced to withhold funding for Iraq’s security forces unless the Iraqi police improve its human rights record. Under what is known as the Leahy Law, the U.S. government is prohibited from financing foreign security forces that commit “gross violations of human rights.”
Iraq’s Human Rights Abuses Could Jeopardize U.S. Funding
HeadlineOct 02, 2006