| Recruitment for the New Iraqi Corps, the American-installed replacement for Saddam Hussein's military, will begin by the end of the month, the U.S. civilian administrator said Monday. L. Paul Bremer also said thousands of demobilized enlisted men from Saddam's army would be hired next week to clean up sites that would be used for the training of the new military. The moves come more than a week after Bremer dissolved Saddam's military and, in the process, threw thousands of career soldiers out of work. "We expect to begin recruiting members of the New Iraqi Corps before the end of this month," Bremer said at a news conference. "We are looking at other ways to stimulate the economy." Security is a prime concern of the U.S.-led occupying force, and a new military would help that situation — both by creating a homegrown security force and by taking young, out-of-work men off the streets. Bremer repeated that officers who held the rank of colonel or above in Saddam's army would be barred from the new military. |