Another clue?

When last we left our story, we were trying to find out why Bernard Kerik left Iraq after three months in the country when he was originally slated to serve from between six and eighteen months building the new Iraqi police force.

The earliest word of Kerik's departure now seems to be in the second week of August in reports in the Newsweek website and in an interview on CNBC.

But perhaps this is another clue. On November 30th of last year Britain's Daily Telegraph reported that a bounty had been placed on the head of Douglas Brand, a South Yorkshire assistant chief constable, working in Iraq on building up the Iraqi police force. According to the article, Brand came to Iraq in July and is an "expert in conflict management [who] came out to Iraq to take over the task of reforming the Iraqi police begun in May by Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner."

So perhaps the plan had changed as early as mid-July, about six weeks after Kerik arrived.