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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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U.S., British integrate UAV units
Published: May 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- The growing reliance on unmanned aerial vehicles in Afghanistan has resulted in a close collaboration between U.S. and British units.
Officials say the 42nd Expeditionary Attack Squadron has MQ-9 Reaper UAVs from the U.S. and British Royal Air Forces. The MQ-9 Reaper is bigger and more powerful than the U.S. Air Force's MQ-1 Predator UAV and is capable of destroying or disabling time-sensitive targets. Officials say the British and American UAV units have become integrated together for operations in Afghanistan, the Air Force reported.
"We have split crews," U.S. Maj. John Myers, the 42nd EATKS commander, said in a statement. "We have a British pilot and an American sensor operator and another crew is an American pilot and a British sensor operator. We are truly integrated, even down to the crew level."
British and American crews in Afghanistan are responsible for the takeoff and landing of the Reapers while Pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada fly the missions. With the integrated operations in Afghanistan, pilots at Creech AFB could be flying a British Reaper during certain operations and other times be flying an American one.
Officials say the relationship between the two air forces has become symbiotic in their combined support of British and American units on the ground.
Officials say the 42nd Expeditionary Attack Squadron has MQ-9 Reaper UAVs from the U.S. and British Royal Air Forces. The MQ-9 Reaper is bigger and more powerful than the U.S. Air Force's MQ-1 Predator UAV and is capable of destroying or disabling time-sensitive targets. Officials say the British and American UAV units have become integrated together for operations in Afghanistan, the Air Force reported.
"We have split crews," U.S. Maj. John Myers, the 42nd EATKS commander, said in a statement. "We have a British pilot and an American sensor operator and another crew is an American pilot and a British sensor operator. We are truly integrated, even down to the crew level."
British and American crews in Afghanistan are responsible for the takeoff and landing of the Reapers while Pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada fly the missions. With the integrated operations in Afghanistan, pilots at Creech AFB could be flying a British Reaper during certain operations and other times be flying an American one.
Officials say the relationship between the two air forces has become symbiotic in their combined support of British and American units on the ground.
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