Lack of Boots, Bullets Hamper Iraq's Border Forces
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AL WALEED, Iraq  - With an expansive gesture  toward his crumbling border checkpoint, RDA's Samarrai expounds  upon the digital, paperless future he says lies in store for  Iraqi customs control.
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BAGHDAD: The northern Iraqi town of Tall Afar, branded by the US military a den of foreign fighters, remained shut to the outside world last night after a massive US-led air and ground assault killed at least 45 people.
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Boosting U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 would create major logistical hurdles for the Army and Marine Corps, which are short thousands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to supply the extra forces, U.S. officials said.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had decayed before last year&#39;s US-led invasion, the chief US weapons
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BLUNDERING American troops have let 380 tons of high explosives disappear from an Iraqi military base. Terrorists and insurgents are feared to have raided the weapons stockpiles at the Al
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Black Watch soldiers have come under attack within hours of moving into Iraqâs rebel-held badlands, although none was injured. Troops and vehicles were halted in the searing desert by a series of roadside
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Legal gaps and immunity may prevent Blackwater guards involved in a shooting in Iraq from being tried.
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In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to complete the hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons shortly before Christmas.
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The U.S. commander of a new offensive north of Baghdad, reclaiming insurgent territory day by day, said Sunday his Iraqi partners may be too weak to hold onto the gains. The Iraqi military does not even have enough ammunition, said Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek: "They're not quite up to the job yet."
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Dozens of military vehicles headed toward the Iraq border and protesters demanded tough action against Kurdish rebels on Monday, a day after 12 soldiers were killed in an ambush. The attack has pushed Turkey closer to a possible incursion into Iraq to target insurgents hiding there.
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TALL AFAR, Iraq -- A three-foot-high coil of razor wire, 21-ton armored vehicles and American soldiers with black M-4 assault rifles stood between tens of thousands of people and their homes last week.
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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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American forces have been confounded by insurgents who have slipped away only to fight another day.
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Soldiers from the Iraqi National Guard show off mortars after militia members delivered sacks of the rounds to Iraqi security forces in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 11, 2004.
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Along the expansive Canadian border, a lack of agents and antiquated motion sensors can make it difficult to distinguish between a would-be terrorist and a wayward moose, officials say.
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Iraqi forces, whose performance is crucial to securing January elections, are riddled with problems, say local U.S. officials.
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the military, few are signing up to go, officials say.