Police rearm, soldiers rally in crime-ridden Baghdad

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Police packed guns again Monday for the first time since the war and unpaid Iraqi soldiers rallied angrily outside a U.S. Army base in Baghdad, a city of people outraged over crime, blackouts and lack of salaries.

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