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...police Mobile Brigade, or Brimob as it's known in Indonesia. By the end of 2005, another $12 million will have gone toward forging a team of 400 Indonesian investigators, explosives experts and snipers, armed with high-end American weaponry, including assault vehicles, Colt M-4 assault rifles, Armalite AR-10 sniper rifles and Remington 870 shotguns. "They are training exactly as they would do in the U.S.," explains program manager Gary Laing, a West Point graduate who has served nine years in the U.S. military. "We teach them to save lives and use deadly force as a last resort...
When a powerful politician was ar-rested last week in connection with the child-abuse scandal that has rocked Portugal since last November, it brought hope that the country's creaky, excruciatingly slow justice system was finally getting into gear. The detention of Paulo Pedroso, Socialist M.P. and former minister, was hailed by lawyers and commentators as a sign that the wealthy and influential were no longer untouchable. And so what if the police used investigating techniques that might be deemed unacceptable in other countries? Although not commenting on the merits of particular arrests, Lisbon lawyer Francisco O'Neill Marques...
...plan and the timing of the war. The senior CENTCOM officer said pressure was being applied to the regime in a variety of ways. He singled out special operations in both north and western Iraq as having been highly successful and said that the triangle of Tikrit, Baghdad and Ar Ramadi (what he called "the center of the regime") would get serious additional pressure in the near future...
...Raymond Y. Rodham ’03 drunk-mailed longtime crush Alicia P. Bowden ’03 last Saturday night shortly after urinating in front of horrified bystanders in the Quincy elevator. “Ar yo seeing anyone ritnoew? I am sooooodru nk your hot,” Rodham commented in both the fifth and sixth Bowden-directed e-mails of the night...
...shell casing found outside the middle school. Like a spent slug, a casing can help narrow down the type of gun that may have been used. So far, ballistics tests have not pinpointed the sniper's weapon. But investigators appear particularly interested in individuals known to possess a Colt AR-15, the civilian version of the M-16 infantry rifle, or a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 rifle. Both are semiautomatic rifles, popular with target shooters, criminals and some domestic extremist groups...