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...help facilitate his transformation of the police forces, Jabr made sure to enlist the help of SCIRI's armed wing, the Badr Organization. Members of the militia have been a growing presence in the National Police, which now consists of nine brigades, with about 17,500 members divided between the Special Police Commandos, the Public Order brigades and a mechanized brigade, which will soon be transferred to the Ministry of Defense. "Leadership in the commando positions has been turned over to Badr," said Matt Sherman, a former CPA advisor to the Interior Ministry. "And new recruits are mostly Badr...
...analyst at IHS, said Tuesday that over the past 50 years, IHS has been very successful at combatting infectious disease in the Native American community, but that chronic illness—health problems related to lifestyle and behavior—remains a problem. “We need to enlist support—both in terms of resources, talent, and ideas—from other entities that have the competency to help us,” Nolan said. Norman and Lopez said that one of the first steps they have taken is to ask HUNAP’s Faculty Advisory...
...plot fizzled when Lim tried to enlist the support of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Generosa Senga, who instead took Lim into custody. On Friday Arroyo declared a state of emergency. Neither Saycon nor anyone else at the meeting was immediately arrested...
...Masri's conviction as proof that existing laws are more than sufficient to nab those who intentionally and threateningly advocate terror, without creating vague crimes that could give prosecutors a fishing license. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human-rights group Liberty, thinks a better solution is to enlist moderate Muslims in the war on terrorism through "a universal human-rights framework." That means, she says, "Salman Rushdie should be free to write books they might not like; but also that Muslim women should be free to wear the veil too. When applied evenhandedly, free speech is not the enemy...
...whether the United States military reflects a just distribution of the shared responsibility for national defense. For example, instead of looking at averages or medians, one could seek to establish whether there is a relatively strong or weak correlation between family income and the likeliness of a child to enlist in the military. If, as one might suspect, the likeliness of a child enlisting in the military decreases as their family’s income increases, a case can be made that something other than a sense of duty and patriotism (much more difficult to quantify in any case) figures...