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A 17-year-old Palestinian Authority Arab teenager was shot and killed on Wednesday evening after pulling a gun on Border Police officers near Hevron. The incident occurred at approximately 8:00 p.m. local time, when the teenage boy arrived at a Border Police position located the on the road connecting between Kiryat Arba and the Cave of the Patriarchs. As he approached of the officers, he was asked, as is usual procedure, to produce an ID card. As one of the officers was inspecting the ID card, the boy began to beat him with his fists, knocked him down and pulled out...

To Arizona Patriots, Yesterday, several members of the Arizona State Guard, LLC attended State Senator Sylvia Allen’s Border Security Committee meeting. One of the subjects was SB1495, the senate version of Jack Harpers HB2070 that will create a state-organized, controlled, and funded citizen’s security defense force to be known as the Arizona State Guard (proposed). The conversation was concerning some of the wording to be reviewed and changed, but in essence the bill appears to be moving forward, and it looks like it will eventually hit the Senate Floor. As I understand Jack Harper’s bill is also moving forward quite...

Canadian border guards are stunned by a landmark Provincial Court ruling that they must obtain a warrant before thoroughly searching a suspicious vehicle. "This is huge. I can't believe it. If this stands, we might just as well go out of business," Ron Moran, national president of the 10,000-member Custom Excise Union and a customs official for 27 years, said yesterday. "Until this judgment, it would never even have crossed our minds to obtain a search warrant. It's just not part of what we're taught." Mr. Moran was commenting on a little-noticed decision last week that acquitted a B.C. man...

/begin my translation N. Korea: Additional Tracking Squads Dispatched to China to Get Border Guards A source on N. Korea, "Arrests are taking time, and they fear that some guards could escape to a third country." [2007-02-09 17:42 ] N. Korean authorities are dispatching additional tracking squads to capture about 20 (N. Korean) border guards who escaped to China to avoid arrest by joint inspection team from Central Party, it has been learned. A source on N. Korea matters informed us on Feb. 8 that they spotted 20 people at custom's office at Sambong, Onsung County, and they appeared...

/begin my translation N. Korea: A Platoon of Border Guards Escape (search squads dispatched to China) [a source from inside N. Korea] 20 guards from Hoiryong area...'shoot-on-sight' authorized [2007-02-04 18:26 ] According to a source inside N. Korea on Feb. 4, a platoon of border guards in Hoiryong area escaped to China recently to avoid arrest by inspection gruppa(note: group; team) from Central Party which are inspecting Sino-N. Korean border area, and N. Korean tracking squads are dispatched into China to capture them. Lee Jung-sam(alias,) a Hoiryong resident who has inside knowledge on (N. Korean) border guards, said in the...

"Today is the “deadline” for “troops to the border” and I am extremely sad to write that sending the National Guard to the “Southern Border” is turning out to be an embarrassing failure. As a member of the Reserve Components, I am ashamed at what I am seeing."

Canadian border guards abandoned the Peace Arch crossing in British Columbia after hearing an armed and dangerous American was trying to enter Canada. The unarmed guards have a clause in their contract that allows them to leave their job if they think they're in danger. They invoked the clause Friday night for the second time in a month. The report of a fugitive turned out to be false. The managers of Canada Border Services Agency say they will man the booths and reopen the border. Friday evening, just one line of cars was slowly being allowed to enter Canada, said...

I have an important question, so I figured I'd turn to the FR gang for advice. I'm a college student, about to enter my 2nd year. I'm very interested in national security, homeland security, terrorism, etc and I plan to mold my major around these fields. Eventually, when I graduate, I will have a decision to make: service vs. money. By service, I mean applying for jobs with the federal government, ie FBI special agent, intelligence analyst, etc. While these jobs offer me the opportunity to serve my country--which I truly want to do--they do not offer salaries comparable to...

North Korea, Firing Machine Guns at Defectors AUGUST 27, 2004 21:55 Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported on August 27 that North Korea allegedly has fired machine guns at the country’s defectors. The newspaper quoted Tim Peters, who founded “Helping Hands,” as saying, “A foreigner who is very much knowledgeable of the plight of the North Korean defectors said he heard gun shots in the border area,” and added, “The North Korean government is thought to have issued an order to shoot people.” He also said, “I heard that someone saw at least two or three dead bodies floating...