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...Bloods, they don't wear colors, and members don't readily admit to their existence. They were originally formed for self-defense, but have gradually become more offensive, with gangs from different backgrounds (Korean, Vietnamese, etc.) squaring off against each other. "They're not really territorial," says Police sergeant Mike Handfield, who heads up the Ly investigation (one suspect has been caught, three others are at large). "It's a virtual reality set-up. When you have groups that are already rivals and they get together because of these games, that has built-in problems...
...built for accepting that risk and mitigating it down to the lowest level," which I guess we are. We're older guys, you can tell - I'm not making fun of myself - but we are older guys. The junior guys on the teams is a staff sergeant who's got, at a minimum, six years in the Army and probably more, maybe eight to ten years before he even comes to us. Our guys have more maturity, more experience. They have theater and regional orientation, country-specific orientation, and that's what decision-makers take into account before saying...
...huge challenge is not to slide into the miasma of Afghanistan's impossible politics. Diplomats say an ambush of U.S. special forces earlier this month in the province of Khost, in which Green Beret Sergeant Nathan Chapman was killed, may have been in reprisal for the U.S.'s backing an unpopular local warlord there, Pacha Khan Zadran. Zadran has enemies within his own tribe, including one who claims to be Khost's new governor and whose 500 fighters captured part of Khost last week. Twice now, Zadran's foes say, he has called in U.S. air strikes on his enemies...
...Angeles police department statistics show that over the past three years tasers were effective only 56% of the time. Although all 1,100 field officers in the San Diego police department are issued tasers, they rarely use them. "They aren't real confident with them," says Sergeant Stephen Margetts. He notes that stun guns work best in a very limited range--8 ft. to 10 ft. from the suspect--and must be held at precisely the right angle. Most officers, he says, just reach for their pepper spray...
...Kyaw Aung, who was kidnapped by the military at age 14, says his company once tied a Karen elder suspected of being a rebel sympathizer to a post. His sergeant ordered Kyaw Aung to gut the prisoner from neck to groin. "I had no choice," says Kyaw Aung, another recent deserter. "If I hadn't done it, the sergeant would have had the other soldiers tie me up and cut me open...