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...fact, isn?t the only Dubai company that has won big business with the Pentagon. In December 2004, another such firm, Seven Seas Shipchandlers, won a $700 million contract to be the prime vendor for maintenance and repair operations for troops in the U.S. Central Command region, which includes the Middle East. Seven Seas has also provided food supplies to U.S. troops in Iraq. Another Dubai-based firm, MAC International, is under contract to deliver $67.2 million worth of police trucks to the Army. Those vehicles, however, will bear a stamp that should please any Washington pol: Made In Detroit...
...focusing its energy on trying to stop the big drug traffickers. A Western counternarcotics specialist based in Kabul says he expects to see high-profile arrests in the coming months, in what will be the opening salvo against the drug trade's "command and control." Helmand's beleaguered police will get some relief when approximately 3,300 British troops take over for the much smaller U.S. contingent in Lashkar Gah. The reinforcements can't arrive soon enough. After the fighting on the way to Sangin subsided, about 50 policemen took up posts above a road south of town--the spot...
...Pentagon report in July 2005 found that al-Qahtani had been subjected to treatment that was--though not a violation of Defense Department policy-- cumulatively "abusive and degrading." It specifically recommended that the commandant of Guantánamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, be reprimanded for failing to adequately monitor the interrogation of a high-value detainee, believed to be al-Qahtani. But Miller's superior, Southern Command Commander General Bantz Craddock, decided against the reprimand. Congress last December passed a provision, sponsored by Senator John McCain of Arizona, that bars U.S. personnel from engaging in "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment...
...banned substances seemed, by past Olympic standards, like a small patch of bad ice. But by late afternoon on Feb. 16 - unbeknownst to the athletes, the trainers and the worldwide TV audience - major trouble was brewing in Torino. A hurried closed-door meeting was under way at the local command center of the Carabinieri, Italy's paramilitary police, that would lead to the one big black mark of the 20th Winter Games: a spiraling doping drama featuring a suicidal Austrian coach, a crusading Italian magistrate and an unprecedented nighttime police raid - all of which could change the way that future...
...Well, that?s a different matter altogether. Some do, some don?t. As the report points out, the military has a great unified-command model that the Department of Homeland Security could learn from; but that model took almost 60 years to build. It will be hard to streamline the system in time for the next major disaster...