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The Insider - British special forces caught dressed as Arab 'terrorists'
British soldiers have been caught posing as Arabs and shooting Iraqis in the occupied city of Basra in southern Iraq.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was formed to ensure America’s freedom to travel.
gmancasefile: TSA: Fail
Ex-soldier in Mount Rainier killing stationed at deeply troubled base
The body of Iraq war veteran Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, was found at Mount Rainier National Park, Wash.Afghanistan Warns NATO to Disband Local Militias
The Afghan government has ordered NATO to disband its local militias and end the “Critical Infrastructure Protection” CIP program, w ith the Interior Ministry saying it was creating parallel structures that undermine the central government’s authority .
Ed Harriman · Where has all the money gone?: On the Take in Iraq · LRB 7 July 2005
On 12 April 2004, the Coalition Provisional Authority in Erbil in northern Iraq handed over $1.5 billion in cash to a local courier.
Army moves on Baghdad's Tahrir Square
The Iraqi Freedom Congress reported on 16 February that the Iraqi army had surrounded demonstrations in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, beat demonstrators, and stormed an opposition TV station. Following seven days of demonstrations in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, the Iraqi government troops after having surrounded the protestors gave them the options of either ending the demonstrations in the square or to move the rally to Abu Nawas Street (which was a few kilometers from where they were gathering). When the demonstrators rejected the request, the troops began preventing the media from covering the event and physically attacking and beating the demonstrators, also the same troops broke into the Sana TV headquarter to intimidate its members and confiscate all its equipments in an attempt to recover tapes shot during the demonstrations.