Iraqi police join Sadr's militia

It seems like only a matter of time before Bremer will announce that plans to transfer power to the Iraqis have been suspended. If there is only a shaky interim authority, and no real police force, what sort of entity would we transfer power to?

From The Washington Post:

At Friday prayers in Sadr City, the vast Shiite slum in Baghdad that spawned the Mahdi Army, scores of uniformed Iraqi police officers wore paper badges with photos of Sadr, his father and his uncle, respected ayatollahs slain by Hussein's government. When Sadr's deputies abruptly decided that the mosque to be used for weekly prayers was exposed to possible attack, the police helped ferry thousands of worshippers to another mosque.

Iraqi police fought beside Mahdi Army near Najaf earlier in the week, and were cooperating with the militia in Najaf and Kut. Several checkpoints along a main highway through southern Iraq were deserted Friday, with pictures of Sadr plastered on an empty pillbox.