Word: patroller
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...terrible spectacle is all too familiar: Heavily armored police officers and Special Forces operatives blocking access to an otherwise deserted school building; crying students, their faces filled with horror and panic, running to shell-shocked parents; ambulances and patrol cars waiting as helicopters observe the chaos from above...
...days. There the traffickers flew small aircraft, dropping hundreds of pounds of cocaine almost weekly direct from Colombia. According to European Union drug reports, the cocaine was then smuggled in small quantities into Europe. The government in Bissau has had little means to prevent the smuggling, and almost no patrol boats with which to watch its coastline...
...Fatah militias in Lebanon and the head of security in Ein el Hilweh, keeps busy trying to survive the regular jihadist attempts on his life - there were five last year alone. Makdah is all that stands between Ein el Hilweh and chaos. When he's not out on patrol he serves as a patron of social programs for children. One of his favorites is the troupe that performs dabka, an Arab circle dance, at festivals around the world. The other is a school for Fatah fighters...
...spent four years at Rocky Mountain National Park and one year at Mount Rainier. I did all kinds of things, I was what they called a utility ranger. I did trail patrol work, I trapped bears, I blew beaver dams, I was a speed cop, I was a garbage man. It was a wonderful job- hell, I would have paid to have done what I did there. But I didn't have any money, so I was glad when they paid me instead...
...concern," says M.L. Kumawat, director general of the BSF. "Indigenous insurgent groups in Bangladesh have to be dealt with strongly so as not to allow them to use their soil to commit acts of violence in India." (Fencing on the Pakistan border has already made that area easier to patrol, the BSF says.) Mutual suspicion inhibits the one antiterrorism strategy that could make a real difference: cooperation between India and Bangladesh against their common threat. Intelligence and human-rights experts in Bangladesh and India say the two countries have not made any serious efforts to share intelligence. That's unlikely...