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Iraq investigates cross-border raids
Published: May 9, 2008 at 7:26 PM
RAMADI, Iraq, May 9 (UPI) -- Iraq called on Damascus to examine the deaths in Anbar province of 13 police allegedly killed by foreign fighters entering the country from Syria. -
Iranian weapons causing Iraqi rift
Published: May 9, 2008 at 7:25 PM
BAGHDAD, May 9 (UPI) -- The decision by the Iraqi government to launch an investigation into Iranian weapons in the country raises questions about political motives. -
Saudis solicit bid for Iraqi border fence
Published: May 9, 2008 at 7:23 PM
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 9 (UPI) -- Scholars in Saudi Arabia warned against extremist ideologies urging men to enter Iraq to join the insurgency while officials solicit bids for a border fence.
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Walker's World: Georgia on my mind
Published: May 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM
By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus
FRANKFURT, Germany, May 12 (UPI) -- Russia's new leadership is bullying Georgia because the Europeans and Americans are at odds; at risk is the only pipeline from the vast Caspian oil basin that is not under Russia's control. -
Homeland security: The week ahead
Published: May 12, 2008 at 10:17 AM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- This week the continuing saga of the Democratic primaries means that presidential politics is likely to dominate the news agenda again. But there are some issues and events on the homeland and national security issue list that might make the inside pages. -
Analysis: Terror lexicon reveals GOP split
Published: May 12, 2008 at 9:53 AM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- The leak of Bush administration guidelines urging U.S. officials to avoid using terms such as "jihadi" or "Islamic terrorists" to refer to al-Qaida and similar groups has exposed a fault line in Republican thinking about the U.S. war on terror. -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 9, 2008 at 7:59 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The Kurdish Al Ahali newspaper Friday carried an editorial with the title "Between the official delegations to Iran and the statements from the government's spokesman," by Heval Zakhori. -
Dogs of War: Inherently governmental?
Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Amid all the polemics over the use of private military and security contractors by the U.S. government there are two words one rarely sees, but they lie at the very heart of the debate: "inherently governmental." -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The Sunni Al Mashriq newspaper said Thursday in an editorial titled "The killing of 15 women" that the problem any militia in the world faces is that no matter how politically professional, organized and ideologically mature they are, they still might be accepted by one country and rejected by another.
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Bush taps DHS management chief as deputy
Published: Feb. 27, 2008 at 10:56 AM
A statement from the White House Tuesday said Bush intended to nominate Schneider, the department's undersecretary for management, who has been acting in the deputy's role since the unexpected departure of Michael Jackson from the post last September.
"I am very pleased," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a statement, praising Schneider's "tremendous leadership and dedication to the department."
As acting deputy for the past four months, Chertoff said Schneider had "focused his vast management experience not only on day-to-day operations of the department, but also on ensuring a strong and smooth transition to the next administration."
"I am grateful for his continued service and look forward to his quick Senate confirmation," concluded Chertoff.
Schneider was confirmed to his current position despite some questions about a program he oversaw earlier in his career as the senior acquisition executive at the National Security Agency.
Schneider has four decades of federal service, beginning as a project engineer at the Portsmouth naval shipyard and rising to become the Navy's principal deputy assistant secretary for research, Chertoff said.
After his job at the NSA, Schneider became a defense and aerospace consultant, before returning to the U.S. government as undersecretary for management at Homeland Security.
Jackson was the point person on an initiative to smooth the transition to the next administration in Homeland Security, which has more political appointees than much larger departments such as Veterans Affairs or even Defense. But the initiative has been the subject of friction with congressional overseers.
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