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Police, anti-riot forces together with intelligence units are networked together to enforce a country's overall security strategy.
Daoud Kuttab: The day the Jordanian security lost its professionalism, its neutrality and its credibility Daoud Kuttab 2011
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Police, anti-riot forces together with intelligence units are networked together to enforce a country's overall security strategy.
Daoud Kuttab: The day the Jordanian security lost its professionalism, its neutrality and its credibility Daoud Kuttab 2011
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Chants of 'Police, police, thank you' as anti-riot forces keep distance.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 15) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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Police, anti-riot forces together with intelligence units are networked together to enforce a country's overall security strategy.
Daoud Kuttab: The day the Jordanian security lost its professionalism, its neutrality and its credibility Daoud Kuttab 2011
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Protesters set fires and battled anti-riot police, including a clash overnight at Tehran University after 3,000 students gathered to oppose the election results.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 15) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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But hundreds of anti-riot police quickly put an end to the demonstration and prevented any gathering, even small groups, at the scene.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 22) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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Inmates relatives' protested earlier outside the prison, some of them weeping as troops stood guard in anti-riot gear.
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Witnesses said mobs of anti-riot police and plainclothes Basij militia lined the streets and on several occasions fired directly into the crowd and beat protesters with steel batons.
Iran's Forces Battle Protests Nationwide Farnaz Fassihi 2011
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This morning the faculty and the students protested by gathering at the lobby of the hospital where they were confronted by plain cloths anti-riot militia, who in turn closed off the hospital and imprisoned the staff.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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But it is the Basij and anti-riot that are ruthless.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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