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Why is the E.U. Sending Armed Guards to Greece? (Time.com)

October 27th, 2010

Time.com - As Greece struggles to cope with a flood of illegal immigrants across its border with Turkey, the European Union is for the first time sending its rapid-response force…

Photographers say Brand’s guards assaulted them (AP)

October 22nd, 2010

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010, British actor-comedian Russell Brand, left, walks with his fiancee Katy Perry, face covered with a coat, after their arrival at the airport in Jaipur, India, Brand and Perry are reportedly to be married later this week in the northern Indian town of Jaipur. (AP Photo) ** INDIA OUT **AP - Russell Brand’s bodyguards assaulted four news photographers, including one from The Associated Press, when they were taking pictures of the British comedian Friday in an Indian tiger reserve…

Afghan gunmen kill 9 guards protecting NATO convoy (AP)

October 18th, 2010

A man injured in a roadside bomb blast lies on a stretcher in a hospital in Herat city, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. Three civilians died in the blast, police said. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - Gunmen killed nine Afghan workers who were guarding a NATO supply convoy in the south of the country, police said Monday.


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Mexico: Prison guards let killers out, lent guns (AP)

July 26th, 2010

Luis Vazquez Barragan, known as 'El 20,' an alleged member of the Mexican drug gang 'La Linea,' is escorted by police while presented to the press in Mexico City, Sunday July 25, 2010. According to police, Vazquez was detained in the border city of Ciudad Juarez during a raid on Friday July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings,…

Mexican suspect: killing targeted US guard’s car (AP)

March 30th, 2010

Police officers escort Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, right, to a court hearing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.  Rosa, an allegedly gang member and suspected in the killings of three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez was arrested by Mexican soldiers, police said Monday. (AP Photo)AP - A suspect in the killing of three people linked to the U.S. consulate says his gang was hunting for the vehicle of a Texas jail guard who was…

Private guards kill Somali pirate for first time (AP)

March 24th, 2010

Armed Somali pirates carry out preparations to a skiff in Hobyo, northeastern Somalia, ahead of new attacks on ships sailing in the Gulf of Aden. Armed, private security guards aboard two Spanish fishing boats Friday repelled an attack from pirates in the Indian Ocean, the boats' owner said.(AFP/File/Mohamed Dahir)AP - Private security guards shot and killed a Somali pirate during an attack on a merchant ship off the coast of East Africa in what is believed to be…