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Likewise, military officers have been charged on the basis of blatantly fraudulent – indeed, amateurishly produced – documents containing obvious anachronisms.
These prosecutions have cast an ever-widening net, ensnaring scores of journalists, authors, and academics, hundreds of military officers, and thousands of Kurdish politicians and activists, among others.
Only a few senior officers with an Islamic bent resisted this straightforward betrayal.
The CEO’s of many, if not most corporations, public and private, are retired military officers – many fairly young.
Vast tracts of prime real estate in cities, sold to officers for a pittance, have turned into mega housing developments.
This process has deepened pro- and anti- US divisions within the army, both among commissioned and non-commissioned officers, but nothing in Pakistan today suggests that radical change is imminent.
According to the Committee, “field officers were often more influential than even the Emperor, war ministers, and chiefs-of-staffs in making decisions to go to and escalate the wars, and were responsible for many atrocities.”
Most US embassies ensure a constant stream of tweets by relying on public-diplomacy officers to get the word out about what the ambassador is doing day by day, even hour by hour.
Moreover, the US should impose targeted sanctions, including asset freezes on senior military officers who maintain particularly close ties to terrorists.
With the children of many Pakistani military officers living in the US, it would also be worth barring these families from the country.
It has afflicted the United States Navy, which is now investigating more than 60 admirals and hundreds more officers for fraud and bribery.
Until the uprising in Tunisia, we thought that political change would be led either by Islamist forces or by a coup by a group of military officers – not by disorganized, youth-led masses.
The incursion has even been linked to the scandal surrounding Chongqing’s disgraced former Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, who had close ties with high-ranking PLA and security-services officers.
Instead, they are controlled by a small group of cronies – former KGB officers, ministers, and senior officials in the president’s administration – who act as Putin’s personal representatives.
British officers believed that they were being brave by not being swayed by "emotions"!
Syrian officers have traditionally served in the Ba’ath Regional Command, the party’s highest body.
One of the books used by the army’s political department, which I found at the infantry school in Aleppo after it fell into rebel hands, illustrates how the regime indoctrinates its officers.
In a rare show of state determination, President Mesic suspended and forced into retirement all twelve officers.
The police arrested one of the attackers, but did not refer the case for prosecution – an outcome that, Martha believes, had a lot to do with her inability to pay the unauthorized “processing fee” that some police officers impose on rape victims and their families.
For one thing, police officers often lack the resources or incentive to do their jobs properly.
Low salaries – about $160 per month – weaken motivation and encourage corruption; reports of officers colluding with rapists and other offenders for personal gain abound.
Moreover, despite support from the UN and international donors, police officers often lack basic supplies, including vehicles to get to crime scenes and even notebooks to record complaints.
In particular, donors should focus on building the capacity of police officers and court officials, while supporting the government’s efforts to provide the infrastructure and equipment needed to enforce the law.
The extension of the basing accord until 2042 was accompanied by an agreement permitting the return of Russian intelligence officers to the Sevastopol base and the termination of Ukraine’s long-term intelligence cooperation with NATO.
The customs officers tasked with implementing those checks will inevitably become symbols of division, and potentially even a provocation to violence by republican extremists, as happened in the past.
Within the Russian judiciary, Chuvashov was one of the rare judges with the courage to rule against powerful local government officials as well as high-ranking officers of the interior ministry.
(My father-in-law is among the more than 300 officers who were locked up, and my wife and I have been active in documenting the case’s fabrications.)
The nexus among military officers, jihadists, and hardline nationalists has created a nuclear-armed “Terroristan” that will most likely continue to threaten regional and global security.
Recent allegations of phone hacking and illegal payments to police officers at some British newspapers published by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, are a clear reminder that journalists, like anyone, may be corrupted and manipulated to serve unscrupulous masters.
At the beginning of the year, Stockholm’s largest public bathhouse introduced single-sex time slots for the whirlpool; shortly thereafter, police officers began patrolling the area.
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