was protesting not only the deep, deep corruption of the Assad regime but also the just unspeakable brutality of the security forces that kept them in power, security forces that were completely OK with detaining teenage boys who had sprayed graffiti on a wall-- down with Assad, just something like that-- completely OK with detaining 15-year-old boys and torturing them to death.
massing in front of the police station demanding the release of their children, and finally storming the police station to save them, and then the security forces opening fire on the parents. That's how the civil war started.
I mean, there is obviously a war going on, and it's still violent, and refugees are flowing out of Afghanistan now at high rates, and Afghan security forces are dying in greater numbers than they ever have. So this is by no means a victory of any means.
But I think that unless the US cuts off all funding, which I don't think anyone is proposing, they're still paying probably $10 to $20 billion a year for the Afghan security forces , I think the ability is probably there to protect the major cities. But in the long run, I think there is going to have to be a political accommodation with the Taliban of some sort.
of the government and they think that's the better alternative than the Taliban. So I think the security forces , they're well seasoned and they can protect this government in certain areas. And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less,
And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less, Because the security forces and the leadership of the security forces have been some of these minorities, like the Tajiks, and the Uzbeks, and the Hazara leadership
And they were killing civilians, including European civilians. The local security forces seemed helpless to stop this wave of terror. And so in desperation, the French authorities turned to the elite of the French army, the 10th Parachute Division under General Jacques Massu.
And therefore, Iran is likely waiting for the US to soften its position in order to make an agreement that is more digestible for hardline members of the security forces that are absolutely clear that they will not give up the autonomy of their nuclear program, regardless of what material incentives may be being offered.
in Chengdu at the time. So they really beefed up the internal security forces .
And I think with things going their way, with maybe other countries supporting the Taliban less, Because of a lot of this talk is just about security forces this or that and military involvement and what not.
the surge that President Obama ordered. So continuing to work and support the Afghan security forces . And then, finally, being well aware that so many of the problems in Afghanistan are incubated in Pakistan.
And the faster you turned that handle, the more electricity comes out. This was a favorite instrument of interrogation used by the French security forces in Algeria. Henri Alleg described what happened to him when he was dragged into an interrogation center.
their own homes. Now the army is deployed there but again the settlers are still in the area. How are Israeli security forces uh responding to the presence of settlers around these homes? Tell us what you know has been done, what is being done.
That's also why it's so important that extremist material gets quickly removed from platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. But these alternative platforms sometimes have been a bit under the radar of the security forces and of the policymakers and lawmakers in recent years. And for example, to the NetzDG legislation, the first anti-hate speech law in Germany, only concerns
to try to keep the country unified. Secondly, continuing to work with the Afghan security forces . They have proven to be much more dependable, effective fighters, taking the fight to the Taliban--
And gradually the new seeped out. And as the people in France began to read headlines about what their security forces were doing in their name, how their own army was acting just like the Gestapo, support for the war effort plummeted.
his quixotic decisions kept the lives of ordinary libyans endlessly veering toward bedum being the only one knowing what was going on seemed to reassure Qaddafi aside from the usual Arab internal security forces spying on everyone that he would be difficult to replace it seemed to me that two libas existed and rarely interacted there was Gaddafi's
that most lucrative of political emotions, fear, and they have done it extremely well so that by now, a year after 9/11, we've seen major attack on the Administration over the them directly, especially Egypt and having been crushed by Egypt's security forces , they then turned - that was the near enemy - they then turned to the far enemy, the United States,
half the votes counted, officials say the current president is pulling ahead. But while the counting is going on, there's political turmoil unfolding elsewhere. The government says the security forces have arrested 11 people involved in an alleged insurrection plot. They say the main opposition candidate was found at the scene of the
Maybe another example from another group that I joined in the US, actually a neo-Nazi group that was operating on the gaming app Discord. They had introduced even more rigid vetting procedures and recruitment procedures, especially after they found out that a lot of investigative journalists and security forces had infiltrated their channels after the Charlottesville rally and after the threat from the far right became more evident.
you called it keyboard activism one time in a conversation. And for those who are in the room or on the call who don't know what happened there, in 2017 in Chechnya, the state security forces
For those of you who were born in the '80s, this was during the apartheid era. And as an example of what it was like in that period, in one instance Gary was detained by security forces for attending a multiracial church service without permission. This was a world at that time.
Well, people with wealth and money and businesses have set up a completely parallel system of private security. So now, in fact, in a country like Guatemala, private security forces are seven times larger than the public police force. In Africa, the largest employer on the continent is private security.