militias

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

from MS SLATE'S news summary today: 
>The New York Times leads with President Bush's apparent order to
get more Iraqi police trained pronto. During what appeared to be
an Iraq (re)assessment meeting with aides yesterday, Bush "made
it clear that [training] is not happening fast enough," one
unnamed official recounted. As the Times describes it, Iraqis
will be given a "few weeks training" then sent to the
"frontlines." ....<
 
also from that summary: 
>The [Los Angeles Times's] Paul Watson gets on Page One with a piece
saying that
U.S.-supported militia in Afghanistan harassed and terrorized
people in one village. "They stand with the Americans, and when
Americans leave an area, then the militias go by another route
and rob the houses," said one villager.<

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