Word: commandant
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...presiding judge of the trial has the courtroom in some upheaval. Saddam has been ejected three times in as many sessions. The defense attorneys refuse to attend. The new, court-appointed defense attorneys have had just a week to catch up on the complex case, which requires a command of Iraqi military jargon and weapons expertise. In court on Monday, the judge had to repeatedly ask the defense attorneys to clarify their questions and dismissed multiple queries as "irrelevant." The defendants themselves, frustrated at the sometimes-deficient cross-examination by their lawyers, pointed out discrepancies in the testimony...
...debate among the NATO countries was instructive: They agree that Pakistan should be pressured to end its backing of the Taliban and arrest Taliban commanders who operate openly in the Pakistani border city of Quetta, where, NATO says, the command, control and logistical center of the Taliban insurgency is based. But Britain cautioned against openly confronting and pressuring Pakistan, reminding the others of the critical importance of its intelligence cooperation in foiling al-Qaeda plots, most recently the scheme to blow up airliners over the Atlantic...
...Serb Republic, the majority Serb area that makes up the rest. More than a decade on, these areas still have the appearance of separate countries. They have their own Prime Ministers and parliaments; their own languages, religions and mobile-phone networks. Although the army was finally unified under one command last year, the Serb Republic is crucially resisting efforts to centralize the police force...
...body was brought for his inspection. "He was lying face upward," says Drauzio Varella, "and when I turned him over, his head dangled. He had been almost decapitated. The guard told me this was the mark of [a gang called] the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital)." Drauzio Varella had never heard of the pcc, but, he says, "this was just the first of many corpses marked in this way." Life behind bars, as described by the doctor in his bestselling memoir turned movie, Estação Carandiru, is defined by such brutal acts. With...
...coalition of Shi'ite religious parties friendly with Iran, deeply mistrustful of U.S. intentions and with scant interest in following Washington's advice on accommodating the Sunnis, whom they see as the backbone of the old regime under which the Shi'ites suffered. Those parties also happen to command the very Shi'ite militias that the U.S. wants disbanded. The assessment that Maliki is unlikely to do what the U.S. asks of him is probably correct. But there's little reason to expect that any other elected or electable leader in the current democratic arrangement will fare any better...