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...they expect policemen to live like priests?" MANILA POLICE OFFICER, after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's government ordered a crackdown on police spending long hours in bars after work...
...Daniel Poohl, who works for the Expo foundation, which monitors right-wing extremism in Sweden, told TIME that Svensson was not a leading figure in the far right and probably lived "on the periphery of Nazi groups." The far right has a violent past in Sweden, having killed two policemen and a left-wing labor activist in 1999. Poohl said that Lindh may have been targeted by Svensson because she was a symbol of the ruling Social Democratic Party, "which in the far right's eyes is responsible for the multicultural society in Sweden, such as bringing immigrants into...
...this view, the Taliban is still harboring al-Qaeda--not, as formerly, in Afghanistan but in Pakistan. And al-Qaeda fighters may be joining with the Taliban in operations. A spokesman for Karzai insisted that Pakistanis and Arabs were part of the raiding party that killed seven Afghan policemen in Paktika province...
...retrain, but nobody expects them to try to march en masse into Kathmandu. Even though they number an estimated 500 commandos, 8,000 regular troops and 20,000-40,000 ragtag militiamen, they would still be no match for Nepal's 68,000 soldiers and 57,000 armed policemen?not in a conventional war. But in a campaign of hit-and-run, the army, stretched thin across the country, cedes the advantage. "The worrying thing for us is the high degree of skill and expertise (the Maoists) have in the art of explosives and ambushes," says Colonel Deepak Gurung...
...witnesses said more than a dozen cars had been destroyed. Tariq Juwaid, a former police staff sargent who had lined up near the car park with other ex-cops seeking readmission into the force, saw over a dozen policemen lying bleeding on the ground immediately after the blast. "Many of them were lying in pools of blood," he says. Razak Saleh, another ex-cop, says he tried to help two of the injured but they were motionless: "I'm no doctor, but I can tell when a man is dead, and those two had already gone to Allah...