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Moments later, Costello said, he watched four HUPD officers—one on bicycle, one on foot and two in a patrol car—surround the suspect and make an arrest...
...charge of trying to maintain security. The police station at Tuz Khurmatu is surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire, and its 20 officers have new flak jackets and Glock pistols, all courtesy of the U.S. Police chief Colonel Abbas Mohammed Amin has added six new patrol cars to the single vehicle he had in October. Four were gifts from the U.S., and two were confiscated from looters. His men's salaries have been increased from $120 a month to $200 to help keep them from quitting, particularly in light of the many recent attacks against police stations around...
...bilingualism inhibit integration, Huntington elaborates on archaic and racist notions of immigration. A simple look at the border between the United States and Mexico will show that the border has been highly militarized. Hundreds of people have died trying to cross into the United States, killed by border patrol officers and the extremely dangerous terrain and weather characteristic of the borderlands. Huntington has written that immigrants “come across a 2,000-mile border historically marked simply by a line in the ground and a shallow river”; such absurd statements prove only that Huntington has probably...
...Disconcerting Duty With your article on the deployment in Iraq of soldiers from Asian countries [Feb. 16], you included a photo of a Japanese soldier in full combat gear on patrol in the southern town of Samawah. You noted that Samawah is not an area of heavy Iraqi resistance, so I found the soldier's attire disquieting. I would rather have seen him wearing a T shirt and jeans while building a school and surrounded by smiling Iraqi children than ready for battle. Tetsuro Umeji Kudamatsu City, Japan...
...Glock pistol, now standard issue for Iraq's police. "The accuracy is great, especially at night," he says, pointing out glow-in-the-dark dots on the sight that line up a target. The Americans have given Iraq's police other equipment as well: Motorola walkie-talkies, Nissan Maxima patrol cars and bulletproof vests. But the technology can't come fast enough. The 259 men under Dhahir's command share 35 flak jackets...