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...Chhattisgarh. More than 6,500 police officers have learned better shooting skills, how to move in thick forest, how to survive on bush food and how to take on enemy fighters in hand-to-hand combat. But the flamboyant head of the college, Brigadier B.K. Ponwar says that no matter how much police officers improve their skills, the key remains winning the support of the masses. "Look at Iraq," he says. "I tell my students that their most important objective is to win people's hearts...
...that it is also about faith. "Muslims often say of extremists," he says, "It's really got nothing to do with religion. And I say to them, These people say that they're doing it in the name of God, so we can't say that it doesn't matter. It does matter...
...inspiring though such tales may be, Blair will not find his work easy. Religion is not an uncontroversial matter in the developing world-witness the Catholic Church's doctrine on abortion and contraception or the discrimination that women face in many Islamic societies. Moreover, in many nations, the legacy of the "war on terror" and the invasion of Iraq-both of which Blair is deeply associated with-have soured the environment for anything that looks even remotely like Western Christian proselytizing. That is why the foundation stresses that it hopes to work with groups from six faiths: the Abrahamic trinity...
...chief executive, René Obermann, who took over after the events allegedly took place, told reporters that in the summer of 2007, the company became aware of a single case involving improper use of phone records. Assuming no laws had been broken, Telekom handled it as an internal matter. Then in April of this year, far-reaching evidence emerged of a broader, organized plot to spy on members of the supervisory board, including Lothar Schröder, a senior official of the Verdi service workers union; Wilhelm Wegner, the head of Telekom's works council; and possibly Thomas Mirow, deputy...
...continue to investigate the woman's identity and motivation. He has no proof yet, but Rohling suspects the attack was a personal vendetta against the captain because the woman targeted him so specifically. "She could have done so much more damage to the Iraqis, or the Americans, for that matter, if she had chosen to," he says...