The Obama Administration’s proposed counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan, which focuses on interdiction and rural development rather than poppy crop eradication, if implemented well, will enhance counterinsurgency and counterterrorism objectives, an expert told a Senate caucus on Wednesday.
A security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested for allegedly telling a colleague that he would assassinate President Barack Obama as well as for contraband after police found 50 "cop-killer" bullets and a stolen rifle in his New Jersey home, reports New York’s Newsday.
Some London neighborhoods are set to look a little more like Northern Ireland as elite paramilitary police hit the streets of specific neighborhoods marked by high levels of drug-related gang violence, reports The Telegraph.
WASHINGTON —The Dutch government on Tuesday told representatives from U.S. security companies that it’s open for business and offered a new initiative to help them succeed in coveted Dutch and European marketplaces.
The Pakistani government has closed the country’s schools to protect educational institutions after twin suicide bombings ripped through the International Islamic University (IIU) in the capital city of Islamabad on Tuesday. The suicide bombings are believed to be retaliation for the Pakistani military’s assault on al Qaeda and Taliban groups in South Waziristan that began on Saturday.
Budgetary woes in Iowa could lead to 515 layoffs throughout the state’s corrections system, jeopardizing the safety of its officers and inmates, according to the Des Moines Register.
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