Iraqi SWAT troopers stand guard at a checkpoint outside the presidential compound as they replace Kurdish peshmerga guards in Baghdad's Jadriyah district on March 23. An Iraqi journalist, Mohammed Badawi, was shot dead by a Kurdish officer at a checkpoint in Baghdad on Saturday as he went to work, provoking protests by other journalists and a promise by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to arrest the perpetrator. Reuters/Thaier al-Sudani