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Harbia isn't the only new face in Amara's forces. Since the initiative began, the city's forces have seen some reshuffling, he says, and Interior Ministry officials from Baghdad have been positioned in every major department. The campaign has also seen the arrests of 134 people and several local officials, most notably the city's acting deputy governor, Rafea Abdul Jabbar, an al-Sadr supporter, and at least 20 police, he says. "There was an order from the court to arrest [Jabbar] because he was cooperating with the fighters," he adds. Those Mahdi Army members who have avoided...
...Israeli authorities identified the driver, an East Jerusalem resident, by his ID card. Shortly before police descended on Dawyyat's home to arrest his relatives, his father Tayseer Dawyyat told journalists, "My son never spoke of plans to carry out such an attack. If he had, I would've tried to prevent him." Police said that Dawyyat had a criminal record, but did not reveal the nature of his offense...
...Their widely publicized trials, combined with the arrest of more than 30 accomplices and the success of authorities in rounding up several hundred other JI operatives, give the impression that the case is almost closed. But four men whom Indonesian police believe were key participants in the plot have never been caught: a military commander, an electronics expert, a terrorist instructor and a fundamentalist teacher...
...arrest of the two journalists has nothing to do with the fight against corruption. Vietnam is a rule-of-law state, in which all citizens are equal before the law, protected by the law and their violations shall be punished in accordance with the law, no matter who they...
...endure threats and harassment from street thugs, the fate of his career, he says, was decided by Sadrists and other radical Shi'ite elements in the police chain of command. The trouble began, Rahman recalls, when his superiors urged him to lighten up on the Mahdi Army, and balance arrests of of Shi'ites by collaring more Sunnis. When he refused to arrest by quota, he says, the police department began investigating claims by Shi'ite detainees that he had abused and stolen from suspects. "None of this is true," he says, "They say anything they want and someone believes...