Word: patrolled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...temporarily held there. Hasnain Javed, a Pakistani, was traveling by bus on Sept. 19 from a family reunion in Houston to New York City, where he was studying computer programming at Queensborough Community College. At a 5 a.m. stop in Mobile, Ala., Javed's bus was searched by border-patrol agents as part of a series of routine inspections. When it was discovered that Javed was holding an expired visa, he was arrested and sent to the Stone County Correctional Facility in Wiggins, Miss...
...bill will also provide $150 million to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and Customs Bureau to improve technology, while increasing the number of INS inspectors, investigators and Border Patrol agents...
...bureaucracy. If there is a catastrophic attack, that management will allow quick action, but the Administration is concerned about assigning any standing military force to missions now handled by police and other law-enforcement and emergency agencies. Governors argue that they know better than the momentarily garrisoned how to patrol their own backyard and protect their neighbors. Soldiers should be used only as "the last resort," Ridge says. Some of his "Governor friends"--Ridge is the former Pennsylvania Governor--are grumbling that their constituents are more comfortable with the police they've grown up with, and that officials who answer...
...Muslims (the Taliban are Sunnis) and massacred 6,000. The Hazara district in the north of the city is again a virtual no-go area for other tribes. Lootings, hijackings and robberies are commonplace. Two men were killed and five injured last week when a patrol of Atta's soldiers tried to stop a group of Mohaqiq's men supposedly stealing a car. The same night, Hazaras also hijacked a taxi and beat its driver, 33-year-old Mauludeen, with the metal butts of their AK-47s. "It's just like it was before the Taliban was here," says...
...alliance has dispatched five of its AWACS planes, with European crews, to patrol U.S. airspace, and has "backfilled" European troops to Kosovo and Bosnia to replace Americans committed in Afghanistan. But European contributions to that war are being arranged bilaterally with European governments, not through the alliance...