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SF Gate
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U.N. experts investigating violations of an arms embargo against Somalia report that countries and private traders are supplying weapons to warlords and militants, South Africa's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.
Dumisani Kumalo, who chairs the Security C..
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SF Gate
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Lebanese security officials say heavy fighting has erupted for a second time in the northern city of Tripoli.
Officials say heavy machine gun fire and rockets are being used in battles between government supporters and opponents. The officials spoke on..
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MSNBC
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We had technical information ... that this work would happen," intelligence chief Saleh told a National Assembly session broadcast live on national television. "We passed this information to the national security (adviser) and to the president of Afghanis..
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CNN
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The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to hear from a Zimbabwean opposition leader Tuesday on the country's post-election violence and humanitarian crisis. Tendai Biti, secretary-general for the Movement for Democratic Change, will present evidence that t..
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SF Gate
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Israeli security forces were on high alert Tuesday, sending beefed-up patrols to public areas such as shopping malls, bus stations and train depots after the first Palestinian suicide attack in more than a year.
Authorities were questioning claims the..
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CNN
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Taliban fighters Tuesday ambushed a convoy carrying fuel bound for U.S. military bases in western Afghanistan, killing 15 Afghan employees of a U.S. security contractor, according to the governor of the Farah province, where the attack happened.
The fu..
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SF Gate
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During a low-key ceremony Sunday, Britain formally handed over control of security responsibility for Basra province to Iraqi authorities, marking a significant step toward Iraqi sovereignty.
"This day is a big day in the history of Basra and the histo..
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MSNBC
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The FBI is continuing its investigation into the shootings, although the Iraqi government has concluded that the security guards were unprovoked when the began shooting at an intersection at Nisoor Square in western Baghdad. The North Carolina-based compa..
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New York Times
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Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in..
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New York Times
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 11 — An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplomats here, when a DynCorp convoy rolled past a knot of traffic on an exit ramp in Ba..
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CNN
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has highlighted alleged poor security preparations before a suicide bombing killed 136 people near her motorcade. Speaking at a news conference in Karachi on Friday, Bhutto said the street where Thursday's bo..
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SF Gate
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Private security guards from an Australian-run firm opened fire on a white sedan in downtown Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, killing two Iraqi Christian women who were driving home from work.
The killings came at a time of unprecedented scrutiny into the..
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MSNBC
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Iraq will take over security from British troops in Basra province within two months, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters Tuesday after meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who said 1,000 more British troops would be withdrawn b..
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USA Today
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State Department officials did little to rein in private security guards who frequently shot at and sometimes killed innocent civilians in Iraq, according to a congressional report released Monday.
In two incidents in which guards from Blackwater USA k..
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SF Gate
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A joint U.S.-Iraqi commission reviewing American security operations after a deadly shooting of Iraqi civilians allegedly at the hands of Blackwater USA guards is preparing for its first meeting in Baghdad, American officials said Thursday.
The U.S. an..
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CNN
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Myanmar's security forces fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters, after attempts to clear them from the streets on Yangon, reports said Thursday. A Japanese national was shot and killed by the military junta, the Japanese Forei..
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Yahoo News
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An Iraqi traffic policeman told Sunday how Blackwater security guards caused carnage when they opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, as a senior officer probing the shooting insisted it was unprovoked.
One week after the gunbattle that killed 10 civilia..
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CNN
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Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski likened U.S. officials' saber rattling about Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to similar statements made before the start of the Iraq war. "I think the administration, the president and the vice preside..
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USA Today
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The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday that a 7-month-old security operation has reduced violence by 50% in Baghdad but he acknowledged that civilians were still dying at too high a rate.
The comments came as relations between the U.S. and Iraq..
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SF Gate
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U.S. officials scrambled to head off a potential crisis Monday after irate Iraqi authorities canceled the license of controversial U.S. security company Blackwater USA, whose guards are accused of shooting to death eight civilians while guarding a U.S. St..
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