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...past few years intensive police training programs have started to bear fruit. Slowly the force is gaining respect among Afghans. A planned ceremony marking the handover of the program from the Germans to an international training force was to take place later today. With Afghan police increasingly becoming the target of insurgent attacks, this morning's blast highlights just how difficult rebuilding this country?s fractured government institutions will...
...mile-long strip's access by air, sea and land. Defense Minister Amir Peretz declared that Israel would not allow the violence in Gaza to spill over into attacks on southern Israel, and the Israelis have plenty of ways to strike back. Not only can they target Hamas installations and leaders with precision air attacks, but they can also turn off Gaza's water and electricity supplies, and halt convoys of humanitarian...
...Islamic Army isn't alone in employing this technique. In April a video posted on the Internet by the Islamic State of Iraq showed several Cougars and Nyala RG-31s - "mine protected" troop carriers - being blown up by IEDs. The video showed militants using deep-buried explosives to target vehicles meant to find and disable roadside bombs, like the Buffalo counter-IED vehicle and the Meerkat mine detector. The video's ominous title: "Hunting the Minesweepers...
...agreement that the seven would keep close watch on a set of economic indicators in each country and consult when growth in any of the seven appeared to be veering far off target. Although Reagan hailed this as a victory, the agreement contained no commitment for anybody to do anything...
...When Reagan climbed the dais, just before 2 p.m., two bulletproof panes of glass stood behind him, to protect against snipers who might target him from the East. Earlier in the day Reagan had looked across the wall into East Berlin from a balcony of the Reichstag. He later said that his forceful tone had been influenced by his learning that East German police had forced people away from the wall to prevent them from hearing his speech over the loudspeakers. As the crowd fell quiet, Reagan began his address with signature folksiness. The main speechwriter, Peter Robinson, wanted Reagan...