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This sense that progress has gone too far and too fast unites a large swath of Libertarians from coast to coast. To many, modernity just means having our daily lives ruled by mechanisms that have grown so complex that they are beyond comprehension or control. It's a notion that bonds anti-WTO progressives and anti-U.N. conservatives alike--and if the party has any real hope of becoming powerful, those seemingly disparate points on the political continuum will have to get closer...
...limited resources on illicit weapons. In the more rural region of Maysan province, where a wide stretch of marshland border creates a difficult environment for Iraqi troops to operate, some officials say drug trafficking is on the rise. "Until now, the border forces do not have the capability to control the border," says police commander General Saad Ali Harbia in Maysan's capital, Amara. "A huge amount of drugs heading for the Gulf countries pass through Amara." He says the smuggling problem has only increased since the start of the war in 2003, "because the American forces don't control...
...anonymously, says the local police had been particularly corrupt. Once the central government's operation began, he says, "1,000 police were arrested in Basra and Al-Faw." Now, says Colonel Abbas Tamimi, an Iraqi military spokesman in Basra, "the most important thing is for the Iraqi army to control our borders...
...British forces have helped in the efforts to get Iraq's border under control. Says Huwaidi: "They help with air support and they control the main gate at [the border crossing of] Khorramshahr, and they help with ground missions on the border when needed." Still, he says, it's not enough. "We have procedures to control the border, but it's not enough because we don't have enough troops and the border is too long. Until now, people and weapons are still getting across, especially from Iran...
Other officers are more suggestive. Captain Saad, a military spokesman in Basra, says there was no cooperation between Iraqi and Iranian authorities with regard to border control. On the contrary, he says, "We received a letter one month ago from the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and they condemned an incident where Iraqi forces shot at some smugglers in the Shatt al-Arab...