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Basra governor says Iraq polic
The governor of Iraq's second city of Basra accused police officers of trying to kill him on Saturday after he survived an ambush on his motorcade in which three bodyguards were wounded.
"Gunmen in police uniform and others in civilian clothes tried to assassinate me. I know who they are and am going to go after them legally," Mohammed al-Waeli told reporters after the attack.
"They are a group of officers in the Major Crimes Department."
Security has deteriorated in Basra over the past year as rival factions from Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority tussle for a sha... Read more
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Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
29 September 2007
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Noose discovered in Hempstead
A noose was found hanging Friday morning in the men's locker room in the basement of the Hempstead Village police department, village police Chief Joseph Wing said.
Wing said he immediately summoned Nassau police detectives and requested a forensic team as well as internal affairs investigators to the scene. Wing said he also notified the district attorney's office.
"It's my intent if the evidence bears out to press for criminal and administrative departmental charges, which could lead to dismissal," said Wing, who is of Asian and Italian descent. "I find this action horrific and intolerable."
Black law enforcement officials expressed shock.
"It's astonishing to hear something like this is happening in Nassau County in 2007, especially in Hempstead Village where half the police force is African-American," said John Nedd, president of the Nassau County Guardian Association, a fraternal organization of black police officers.
Continuing a 12-year effort to increase its numbers of blacks, Hispanics and other minorities and women, the Nassau County Police Department conducted a major effort to recruit members of those groups for a police exam last month.
The minority recruitment effort follows the U.S. Justice Department's first lawsuit against the county in 1977 for discriminating against minorities. The numbers for those groups from 30 years ago were not immediately available, but significant gains have been made for minorities over the past dozen years, officials said.
Wing, who has been in law enforcement for more than 20 years and became chief of the Hempstead department in April, said his department joined the county's recruitment drive and had a banner outside the village headquarters during the recruitment effort.
He said the racial breakdown of the village force of 107 officers, including about 12 women, is about 50 percent whites and 50 percent minorities - mostly blacks with about 10 Hispanics.
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