Officials: Iraq Border Guards Lack Guns
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A State Department briefing chart dated Sept. 22 indicates the Iraqi border guard force being trained and equipped by the United States still lacks needed weapons, vehicles, body armor and communications equipment.
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June, officials in the border states said.
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The U.S. military's soaring demand for small-arms ammunition, fueled by two wars abroad, has left domestic police agencies less able to quickly replenish their supplies, leading some to conserve rounds by cutting back on weapons training, police officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 -- Two men and a woman were wounded Thursday in a quiet Kurdish village in northern Iraq when guards from a British security company raked a crowded taxi with automatic weapons fire, local police said. It was the third shooting of Iraqi civilians by a private security firm in less...
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A senior Iraqi military official said Tuesday the bodies of two missing U.S. soldiers have been found near the town where they went missing, but the U.S. military said it could not confirm the report.
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DONA ANA ARMY CAMP, N.M. -- Members of a National Guard battalion preparing for deployment to Iraq said this week that they are under strict lockdown and being treated like prisoners rather than soldiers by Army commanders at the remote desert camp where they are training.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says several hundred tons of high explosive material have disappeared in Iraq. The agency says a lack of security has led to looting from several sites.
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Equipment and materials that  could be used to make nuclear weapons are disappearing from  Iraq but neither Baghdad nor Washington appears to have  noticed, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency reported on Monday.
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The U.S. intelligence community has failed to provide policymakers with  a clear understanding of the Iraq insurgency, the role of militias or the level of violence in that country, according to the Iraq Study Group.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons for military use before last year&#39;s US-led invasion and its nuclear program had decayed since the 1991 Gulf War, a US weapons inspector said in testimony on Wednesday.
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In Baghdad, armed Blackwater USA guards, privately hired by the U.S. government, conducted a mission to protect State Department employees. Within minutes there was an explosion, gunfire, and bodies in the streets.
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Militants loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr failed to hand over substantial quantities of heavy weapons on the first day of a disarmament plan yesterday, bringing threats from the US
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America&#39;s top arms inspector says there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that Iraq lacked the ability to make them for years.
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The security situation in Iraq will not be resolved until the army and police are made up entirely of Iraqi people, the country&#39;s interim president said today.
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The U.S. military worried Sunday about "mixed messages" from Iran, listing a dramatic drop in Iranian-made weapons reaching Iraq but no reduction in the training and financing of Shiite militants.
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NATO's top commander has said there were not enough international troops in Afghanistan to control the border and maintain the steady military presence needed to underpin reconstruction efforts.