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  • The investigation by the city Department of Investigation outlined a troubling pattern of lying, incompetence, carelessness and ill-trained caseworkers.

    Welfare Workers Charged With Child's Homicide AP 2011

  • Except for the British-trained Arab Legion of Transjordan, Arab units were largely ill-trained and inexperienced.

    Matthew Yglesias » Five State Solution 2009

  • Gadhafi's forces far more than the ill-trained rebel volunteers, who tended to beat panicked retreats when artillery and rockets started falling.

    Rebels Shore Up Status With Diplomacy, Oil Charles Levinson 2011

  • The investigation by the city Department of Investigation outlined a troubling pattern of lying, incompetence, carelessness and ill-trained caseworkers.

    Welfare Workers Charged With Child's Homicide AP 2011

  • Except for the British-trained Arab Legion of Transjordan, Arab units were largely ill-trained and inexperienced.

    Matthew Yglesias » Boot v. Peres on Arab Peace Initiative 2009

  • Those who oppose such a move argue the rebels are too disorganized and ill-trained to use any U.S.-provided weapons aid effectively and that there is a risk that the arms provided to them today will fall into the hands of anti-American Islamists.

    Gadhafi Push Tests Allies Nathan Hodge 2011

  • The Afghan government wants development workers and their projects to be guarded by police officers and soldiers, a goal that diplomats and aid workers say is unrealistic because the local government security forces are corrupt, ill-trained and not numerous enough to do the job.

    Security ruling prompts firms to shutter major Afghan projects Rajiv Chandrasekaran 2010

  • The Afghan government wants development workers and their projects to be guarded by police officers and soldiers, a goal that diplomats and aid workers say is unrealistic because the local government security forces are corrupt, ill-trained and not numerous enough to do the job.

    U.S.-led Afghan reconstruction projects to end because of security dispute Rajiv Chandrasekaran 2010

  • Opponents of arming the rebels argue that the ragtag force is too disorganized and ill-trained to use any weapons effectively and that there is a risk any arms provided to them today could fall into the hands of Islamists in the future.

    CIA Operatives Are Aiding Rebels Adam Entous 2011

  • Since they are even more unaccountable than regular police officers, it's no surprise that the bully-tactics of these ill-trained louts continue apace.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

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