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The interior ministry is also investigating an incident in which an American patrol reportedly caught a death squad red-handed on its way to kill a prisoner.
ECONOMIST: Iraq
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The woman's body was found by an American army patrol on Thursday near the south-eastern town of Vitina.
BBC: Mourners remember Racak dead
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The next day, a roadside bomb killed three American soldiers on patrol in eastern Afghanistan, while a suicide bomber wounded two more NATO troops south of Kabul.
NPR: Afghan Violence Shows Little Sign of Easing
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Visit the American-Mexican border patrol at El Paso, and the problem is plain.
ECONOMIST: Who gets in
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Also, an American soldier died from combat-related injuries while on patrol in eastern Baghdad.
CNN: Bombings kill nearly 90 in Iraq
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The police there held a protest last week to demand that American troops pull out of their police station, and let them patrol the streets of the town on their own.
ECONOMIST: Life under the coalition
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The fluent English-speaker has spent the last eight years helping British and American troops speak to their Afghan allies, risking his life on patrol in Helmand, and working side by side with British soldiers.
BBC: The Afghan interpreters seeking asylum in the UK
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American officials admit that Afghan forces don't have the ability to patrol the entire border, which cuts through the Hindu Kush mountain range, whose peaks exceed 20, 000 feet.
WSJ: Role Reversal: Pakistan Fears
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She had been ejected from the Minutemen, a self-appointed border patrol group, and started her own splinter group, the Minutemen American Defence Fund.
ECONOMIST: The implications of a death sentence on a female vigilante
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At Patrol Base Wilson, in Kandahar province's volatile Zhari district, American and Canadian military trainers are trying accomplish a top-priority task, something many Afghans believe can't be done: create a police force that will maintain law and order in a country where few feel safe anymore.
NPR: U.S. Launches Aggressive Training for Afghan Police
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Mexico has also promised fresh efforts: notably, an ambitious plan (launched, with propitious timing, this month) to use 13, 000 troops to patrol its southern borders with Guatemala and Belize, and to beef up controls, with American help and money, on its northern frontier.
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