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Indeed, it is patently clear that people intent on framing military officers authored the documents in question many years later, in 2008 at the earliest.
In their "Declaration on Strengthening the Common European Policy on Security and Defence", EU governments announced the setting up of new permanent security institutions in Brussels, including a Political-Military Committee of civil servants and a Military Committee of staff officers.
Across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, national leaders are either military officers or preoccupied with military matters.
Companies’ chief financial officers (and others with excess, temporary cash) were using their cash to purchase securities backed by pools of mortgages, which they would sell back to the bank the following day, reaping attractive interest gains.
It was our ignorance and our prejudice...”Likewise, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a strong apology in 2008 to the “stolen generations” of Aboriginal children taken from their families by welfare officers.
The heightened activity, much of it concentrated along the Pakistani border, suggests that some of Pakistan's army intelligence officers have resumed their support of the Taliban and its friends.
“The sight of officers in uniform protesting in Tahrir Square and speaking on Al Jazeera really worries the Field Marshal,” a former officer told me.
In particular, Coptic protesters are an easy target against which to rally soldiers and officers.
This year, Chile will hold its sixth consecutive democratic election, with two women – former Labor Minister Evelyn Matthei and former center-left President Michelle Bachelet (both daughters of high-ranking military officers) – currently leading in the polls.
In response to a corruption investigation involving his family members and close associates, he reassigned hundreds of prosecutors and police officers, assumed control over the judiciary, and established a state agency to block any Internet site at will.
Just last month, individuals inspired by these groups’ activities carried out two separate attacks, one in the Canadian parliament and another on police officers in New York.
For decades, Africa’s boundaries have been denounced as the artificial and arbitrary work of ignorant and cynical colonial officers, which has contributed to a long train of tribal rivalries, if not ethnic cleansings.
Four police officers are on trial for his killing.
His parents say higher-ranking officers are going free.
Police officers resorted to torture to get them to admit that they were members of an Islamist party, Hizb-ut Tahrir.
Beyond purging thousands of military officers, judges, and educators, the government has issued arrest warrants for dozens of journalists, and shuttered more than 100 news agencies, publications, and radio and television stations.
After all, in 1947 similar Jewish “freedom fighters” blew up the King David Hotel, killing tens of British officers.
In February 2010, a group of senior Chinese military officers, angered over US arms sales to Taiwan, called for China’s government to sell off US government bonds in retaliation.
Just as adherence to rules can improve the performance of emergency-room personnel, so due process and constitutionalism can improve the performance, especially in a crisis, of law-enforcement officers and national-security policymakers.
His generation of KGB officers watched the collapse of the Communist Party and all the governmental bodies that it “directed and controlled,” including the KGB.
In the absence of Communist Party control, these security officers betrayed their corporate ethic and engaged in horse-trading, applying force when a trade did not go well.
But he failed to revive the economy in the face of opposition from corrupt Peronist trade_union barons and army officers nostalgic for lost power.
Here is a possibility: 15 years is how long it takes for individual loan officers and hedge-fund traders to be promoted out of their jobs.
A further element that caught the public's eye was the lethal assault in Hebron against an international observer team that included two Turkish officers.
In August 1939, an Anglo-French military delegation traveled to Moscow, where the head of the Soviet delegation, Defense Minister Kliment Voroshilov, asked the Western officers a simple question: would the Polish government agree to the entry of Soviet troops, which would be necessary to repel a German invasion?
He has also replaced career army and security officers with cronies.
Many policemen and intelligence officers are on the crime bosses' payrolls.
Most significantly, Duterte has publicly encouraged the Philippine National Police to murder suspected drug dealers and users, promising to shield officers who do so from legal consequences.
Disaffected officers of many persuasions participated, as did opportunists seeking promotion.
Many generals, intelligence officers, and other officials hesitated when it became known that a putsch was underway.
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