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...Kurds' army, the 95,000-strong Peshmerga militia (the name literally means "those who face death"), is the largest and most disciplined in Iraq, and would be a formidable guerrilla force if fighting started in the mountains of their homeland. On the other hand, many Shi'ites have insisted that if the new Iraqi government is going to crack down on and try to disband ethnic militias, then the Peshmerga shouldn't be exempted...
...Homeland Security Adviser Frances Fragos Townsend advocated a two-pronged plan for national preparedness at the Institute of Politics yesterday. Townsend, in a speech entitled “Tranforming National Awareness,” told an audience of about 50 people that a unified effort on the part of federal, state, and local governments is necessary to ensure a speedy response in times of disaster. These governments “have not developed a shared commitment” to national preparedness, she said. “Without shared vision,” Townsend said, “we will...
...David Heyman, homeland security program director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, praised the White House plan for placing "a greater emphasis on non-pharmacological interventions" than in previous reports, including Bush?s plan last November. But he said "much more needed to be done," including providing more specific guidance to cities and states about what they should...
...city for nearly a week after the August 29 landfall, Nagin vowed to make better use of city and federal resources next time around. Along with mobilizing the city?s transit system to evacuate residents, he said the city had been working with the federal Department of Homeland Security to make sure Amtrak trains would be available for evacuations and that commercial airlines would remain in operation long enough to ferry out all visitors who had already purchased return tickets...
...Instead, the plan calls for citizens to take more responsibility for their own safety. Terry Ebbert, New Orleans? director of Homeland Security, said he expects no more than 10,000 people to fall into the ?special needs? category - those with medical conditions or handicaps or who lack transportation of their own. And Nagin said the city?s responsibility for these residents would extend only to getting them on a bus out of town; from there, he said, the state would be responsible for setting up emergency shelters outside the areas vulnerable to flooding...