U.S. Military commanders are now saying Iraq will have 125,000 fewer Iraqi security personnel than needed before the scheduled Jan. 30 election. The New York Times reports the Iraqi government has said 270,000 security personnel are needed to secure the country’s 9,000 polling places. But the U.S. is now admitting only 145,000 Iraqis will be trained in time. The situation is particularly bad in Mosul, the country’s third largest city. The Guardian of London is reporting that three-quarters of the city’s police force has either deserted or joined the resistance over the past month. Even the city’s police chief was recently arrested after it was suspected he was assisting the anti-US resistance. A senior US military commander said the US must now find a way to rebuild the police force in the next two months if elections are expected to take place in the city.