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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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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. -
Analysis: Border force seeks recognition
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- An Indian police force that guards the Indo-Tibetan border wants the federal Interior Ministry to give it the same status as other paramilitary security forces. -
Atlantic Eye: Hardly a done deal
Published: May 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM
By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN
UPI International Columnist
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 8 (UPI) -- Most Europeans see the U.S. presidential election as a done deal. They are quite surprised. They were convinced that Sen. Hillary Clinton was the sure thing. Now, and they are confused, they are expecting the inevitable: Sen. John McCain as president. -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
Shebab Al Iraq newspaper Wednesday carried an editorial with the headline "Who is responsible for the atrocities in Sadr City?"
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Bush names new homeland security adviser
Published: March 19, 2008 at 8:50 PM
WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- President Bush has named senior Justice Department national security official Ken Wainstein to be his new homeland security adviser, replacing Fran Townsend.
He also named his pick to be director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, saying he would nominate current deputy head and acting director Michael Leiter to the vacant post.
In a statement Wednesday announcing Wainstein's appointment, Bush called him "a proven leader and a dedicated public servant with nearly two decades of law enforcement experience."
Wainstein's career as a federal prosecutor began in 1989 when he left Washington, where he had clerked for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court, and became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.
In 1992 he returned to work in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he specialized in the prosecution of federal racketeering cases against violent street gangs, according to the Justice Department. He became interim U.S. attorney for the district in April 2001 but later that year was selected to run the Justice Department's Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, overseeing all 94 offices nationwide.
He moved to the FBI the following year, where he was first general counsel and then chief of staff before returning to Justice as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia again in 2004. In October 2005 he was confirmed in that post, but less than a year later he became the first assistant attorney general for national security.
In that job he headed the new National Security Division at the Justice Department. The division, which brings together prosecutors working counter-terrorism, counterintelligence and other kinds of national security cases, was established as part of the reforms of U.S. intelligence in the wake of the failure to prevent Sept. 11 and the Iraq WMD debacle.
Leiter moved to the National Counter-Terrorism Center from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he was deputy chief of staff. Previously, he was a senior staffer on the President's Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Leiter received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and his JD from Harvard Law School.
He also named his pick to be director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, saying he would nominate current deputy head and acting director Michael Leiter to the vacant post.
In a statement Wednesday announcing Wainstein's appointment, Bush called him "a proven leader and a dedicated public servant with nearly two decades of law enforcement experience."
Wainstein's career as a federal prosecutor began in 1989 when he left Washington, where he had clerked for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court, and became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.
In 1992 he returned to work in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he specialized in the prosecution of federal racketeering cases against violent street gangs, according to the Justice Department. He became interim U.S. attorney for the district in April 2001 but later that year was selected to run the Justice Department's Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, overseeing all 94 offices nationwide.
He moved to the FBI the following year, where he was first general counsel and then chief of staff before returning to Justice as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia again in 2004. In October 2005 he was confirmed in that post, but less than a year later he became the first assistant attorney general for national security.
In that job he headed the new National Security Division at the Justice Department. The division, which brings together prosecutors working counter-terrorism, counterintelligence and other kinds of national security cases, was established as part of the reforms of U.S. intelligence in the wake of the failure to prevent Sept. 11 and the Iraq WMD debacle.
Leiter moved to the National Counter-Terrorism Center from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he was deputy chief of staff. Previously, he was a senior staffer on the President's Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Leiter received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University and his JD from Harvard Law School.
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