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New York -
As of late, the New York City Police Department's vaunted Emergency Service Unit (ESU) has been mired in a series of controversial and embarrassing misfirings of their weapons which insiders attribute to reduced training.
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Spokane -
A Spokane Valley man used a military-style knife to threaten the Spokane SWAT team while they attempted to execute a search warrant regarding stolen firearms.
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Manila -
"...use a weed knife. Slip...blade under the roots of the crabgrass. Lift with the knife as you pull on the foliage of the crabgrass. The crabgrass should slip easily from the soil - roots and all. For large clumps, use a shovel..."
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One man is dead, one officer is wounded, and firefighters came under gunfire while responding to a three-alarm fire in Las Vegas Wednesday afternoon.
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Journalism is holy war in the Pakistan region, resident Islamuddin Sajid said. "We and our families have no security, so, I request the international community to help the journalist of this region," he added.
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The family of a prominent Taliban leader has been arrested by the Pakistani military. Mullah Fazlullah has been the brains behind the Swat Taliban. His whereabouts are not known at present.
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Peshawar airport in Northern Pakistan shuts down after receiving bomb threats. The airport serves as a key terminal against the war on terror.
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In a local radio broadcast Taliban termed Pakistan army as infidels and proclaimed that they should be punished by beheading and chopping their bodies up into little pieces. However, it seems Swat inhabitants are no more interested in their sermon.
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The Pakistani army has killed about 200 insurgents in the last 24 hours in ongoing fighting aimed at forcing Taliban fighters out of the country’s northwestern Swat valley. This follows the Taliban’s violation of a peace deal late last month.
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Pakistani forces say they have killed 64 'militants' in fighting in northwest Pakistan's Buner and Swat districts. The army says 37 militants were killed in Swat, where a peace deal to end Taliban violence has collapsed. Two soldiers have also died.
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The Malam Jabba ski resort in Pakistan's Swat Valley, destroyed by the Taliban in 2009, has reopened and is now attracting tourists to its week-long snow festival.
 An armed Iraq war veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger
managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape chest-deep snow.
Peter Keller was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Washington bunker today, after SWAT officers blew a hole in the roof of Keller's elaborate bunker.
 As a SWAT team closed in, a fugitive accused of killing a Tennessee mother and daughter before disappearing with her two other children killed himself, allowing authorities to safely recover the kidnapped girls, police said.
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FBI "Enhanced" SWAT in Atlanta gaining entry into a building during a training exercise. Enhanced SWAT teams are meant to serve as support to the HRT on operations. In a major event involving armed terrorist, the Enhanced SWAT is to surround and contain the area until HRT is able to arrive and resolve the incident. However, if innocent life is in danger, the Enhanced SWAT teams are given the green light to resolve the situation themselves if possible.
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