Private Security Puts Diplomats, Military at Odds
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 -- A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private...
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The Pentagon is engaged in bitter debate over how far it should go in managing information to influence opinion abroad.
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It seemed like a fair deal from the CIA: Spy for us and get lifetime financial support in the United States. But years after working as spies during the Cold War, a former Eastern-bloc diplomat and his wife, who now live in Seattle, say the U.S. government is trying to freeze them out.
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Iraqâs Ministry of Interior is proposing a radical reshaping of the way American diplomats in Iraq are protected.
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A bomb attack on U.S. diplomats, the first since 1990, has sent shudders through the small but growing American community
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American diplomatic facilities like the one in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, employ a layered defense against terrorist attacks, with foreign guards on the outside and American security personnel including U.S. Marines inside.
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In what may be a glimpse of things to come, some U.S.-backed local militias are starting to shoot at each other
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The first joint army exercise between neighbors whose relationship is traditionally tense signals the redrawing of Asia's geopolitical map. Still, many sources of tension remain
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Next weekâs meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors over Iranâs nuclear programs is looming as a tense diplomatic battleground between the US and its European rivals.
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BELGRADE, Aug 26  (IPS) - Privatisation has brought in "private  armies" to protect Serbian businesses facing  growing threats.
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After years of high-stakes legal wrangling, a lawsuit stemming from the gruesome deaths of four U.S. contractors in Iraq is moving behind closed doors in an action seen as an important precedent for the booming private security industry.
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Shifting alliances raise tension with Moscow.
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Nuclear negotiations with North Korea are anchored on two premises. One is not to tolerate Pyongyang&#39;s ambition to arm itself with nuclear weapons.
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Experts believe the weapons are secure for now, but they worry about what will happen when new officers take over
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Pressure grows on military regime after its threat to crack down on protesters.
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U.S. diplomats in Iraq, increasingly fearful over their personal safety after recent mortar attacks inside the Green Zone, are pointing to new delays and mistakes in the U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad as signs that their vulnerability could grow in the months ahead.
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The turf war over control of intelligence spending pits the Pentagon and its Capitol Hill allies against advocates of a new national intelligence director, according to lawmakers and staff aides.