From today's Washington Post

Violence highlights fears of Iraqi security forces taking over after U.S. leaves

Washington Post reports (April 18^th): Raw welts and purple bruises run down the backs of dozens of Sunni Muslim men in a small village west of Baghdad -- evidence, local residents say, of abuse by the Iraqi army that threatens to widen a sectarian rift.

The wounds came from beatings administered last month by soldiers from the predominantly Shiite force charged with protecting the Sunni community here, villagers said. One by one, they said, the Sunni men were questioned, beaten and shocked with electricity in a roundup by mostly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, who were reeling from the killing of five comrades at a checkpoint.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041702704_pf.html