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Indian police get jungle warfare training
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India has asked its state governments to provide jungle warfare training to its police personnel to counter Maoist insurgents. -
DHS announces IPA grants
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:13 PM
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Grants to aid cities in the event of terrorist attacks or natural disasters were announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. -
Record year against organized crime
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:12 PM
LONDON, May 16 (UPI) -- British officials say 2007-2008 was a record year in the war on drugs, according to an annual report by the Serious Organized Crime Agency.
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Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 16, 2008 at 9:16 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Sabaah newspaper said Friday in its editorial that observers of the political process in Iraq today cannot illustrate it or acknowledge its aims or intentions, which turns the process of analyzing it into something close to a guessing game. -
German industry targeted by Russian spies
Published: May 16, 2008 at 8:56 PM
By STEFAN NICOLA
UPI Germany Correspondent
BERLIN, May 16 (UPI) -- The German government has accused foreign intelligence services -- blaming mainly Russian agents -- of having spied on German companies. -
Feature: U.S. cites attacks despite truce
Published: May 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- A new cease-fire has been declared between the Iraqi government and Shiite gunmen of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, but U.S. and Iraqi forces say their troops are still coming under attack in Sadr City. -
Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors. -
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game
Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 15 (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. -
Iraq press roundup
Published: May 15, 2008 at 7:20 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Mashriq newspaper had an editorial Thursday titled "Last lines for the chaotic months" that said although Iraq has been in a war for five years, the government in the last few weeks has been chaotically carrying out quick military operations and offensives in many cities and areas around the country.
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India deploys more forces at Nepal border
Published: March 26, 2008 at 1:49 PM
NEW DELHI, March 26 (UPI) -- India has deployed additional security forces along the border with Nepal ahead of elections in that country, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
"In five states adjoining the border with Nepal, SSB has set up 20 battalions and 445 border outposts," a top ministry official said. "We have mobilized additional manpower in view of the constituent assembly polls."
SSB refers to the Sashastra Seema Bal, the paramilitary force that guards India's borders with Nepal and Tibet.
The official said the move came following meetings between high-level security officials from both countries, and the Nepalese side was cooperating.
"We have received direction from the Interior Ministry to make foolproof security arrangements for the polls in Nepal," SSB Director General Gopal Sharma said. "We are working together with state police to rule out lapses in these arrangements."
A high-level meeting has been called at the Interior Ministry April 1 to take stock of the security arrangement, said the official who declined to be identified.
"We are training seven companies comprising women officers to deploy them along the border," Sharma said, adding there was no plan to fence the Indo-Nepal border.
"In five states adjoining the border with Nepal, SSB has set up 20 battalions and 445 border outposts," a top ministry official said. "We have mobilized additional manpower in view of the constituent assembly polls."
SSB refers to the Sashastra Seema Bal, the paramilitary force that guards India's borders with Nepal and Tibet.
The official said the move came following meetings between high-level security officials from both countries, and the Nepalese side was cooperating.
"We have received direction from the Interior Ministry to make foolproof security arrangements for the polls in Nepal," SSB Director General Gopal Sharma said. "We are working together with state police to rule out lapses in these arrangements."
A high-level meeting has been called at the Interior Ministry April 1 to take stock of the security arrangement, said the official who declined to be identified.
"We are training seven companies comprising women officers to deploy them along the border," Sharma said, adding there was no plan to fence the Indo-Nepal border.
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