I saw this on the net this morning. Looks like they prefer a G19. The reason I say it’s a 19 is that I believe the 9mm are more prominent outside the US and their police are armed with the 19.
US taxpayers floated the bill for 50,000 G19s for the Iraqis.
I wish they would have floated the bill for that meny G19s for us…
There you go, those guns were supposed to go to the Iraqi cops and soldiers, etc. What is this guy’s role in life? undercover cop? 
probably not. I wonder how many of those 50K g19s ended up on the black market?
Uncle bought a lot more than just those G19’s
Secondly – the guy could be some MOI Death Squad guy they get issued G19’s…
I remember a post on TOS a while back where one member stated that the Iraqi Police were selling their G19s for a variety of reasons.
I immediately called the Brady Bunch and complained about “straw purchases” but they didn’t seem to care 
Glocks are a good choice as they require little care and maintenance. If Allah wills the pistol to fire, it will fire.
shoulda handed them used 92fs pistols and given our guys the G19s…
Iraqi’s preferred sidearm = whatever Uncle Sugar gives those BEM’s for free…
Suicide,
You get the “golf clap” for that one.
Exactly what I was thinking when I was reading this.
Arm the Iraqi’s and disarm the US, it makes alot of sense to me.
Uh, we gave them X numbers of Glocks. What Suicide was saying was that we could have given them that same number of M9s and give the troops the Glocks. Either way we are arming them. it makes less sence to give them what most would think is a superior weapon to ours. However, it just MAY have been a joke…
We also bought them a shit-ton of brand new Arsenal Bulgaria AR-M1’s.
I spent twenty five months over there as a police training contractor in Baghdad at the Baghdad Police College running one of the firearms training programs. We didn’t buy the hadjis 50K G19s, it was more like 175-200K. Teaching and training these guys is a huge and frustrating challenge: they are casual about safety, maintenance, markmanship fundamentals, etc.
I did get to develop some Iraqi firearms instructors and when I left in November, those guys were clearly up to the task of teaching their countrymen, but unless you constantly “tweaked” your staff, they’d run off into the ditch. I guess culturally, we will never get them where they really need to be.
BTW, they thought the Beretta was better than the Glock because they saw all the soldiers and most of the contractors carrying M9s. This was also reinforced because the Saddam regieme carried a Beretta licensed and Iraqi manufactured copy of the 1951 Brigadier that they called the Tariq.
Wow, I’m just impressed his finger is off the trigger.
This picture has been floating around the net. According the caption, the dude with the 19 is an Al-Sadr supporter at an anti-US demonstration.
Wow, I’m just impressed his finger is off the trigger.
THAT was one of the hardest things to teach, along with muzzle awareness…
And it’s not only Glocks…
Walther has supplied P99’s, Beretta has supplied some 92FS’s (hard for me to believe as well), and IIRC Ruger even got a recent contract.
And yes - IA’s, IP’s and DBE guys (Department of Border Enforcement) all want a Beretta. After all, all of our guys are carrying them, and we only carry the best, right?
