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Parent wants apology from school district He spends $4,000 fighting citation By JANICE KAYSER jkayser@cninow.com Posted: June 5, 2008 The Wauwatosa father said he took a photo of a reading wall in a Wilson School classroom Feb. 19 to help a parent in his wife's online support group for parents of autistic children. The photo, however, led to an interrogation of another parent, conspiracy accusations and, eight hours later, a disorderly conduct arrest of the puzzled father. "I just cannot believe this happened," Dave Gallenberger said. Gallenberger and his wife, Arlene, and Dana and Barbara Nicholson told a reporter last...

Sgt. Angela Mathern and her bomb-sniffing dog Vinny, both of the 51st Military Police Detachment, based out of Ft. Lewis, Wash., inspect a cart carrying propane tanks in downtown Mosul during a search of random vehicles for weapons and bomb-making materials, Feb. 14. Soldiers from the 552nd Military Police Company, based out of Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, pull security. Photo by Sgt. Patrick Lair, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. MOSUL — U.S. military police in northern Iraq are developing new tactics in an attempt to counter insurgent violence in the Ninewah provincial capital city of Mosul. In February, the 552nd Military...

FORT HUACHUCA — The sound of shotguns being fired at Smith Middle School on Tuesday brought post military police officers to the scene. But instead of setting up a perimeter around the campus and then slowly beginning the process of clearing rooms, the soldiers used a new procedure of running to the sound to neutralize the active shooter. Law enforcement was putting out warnings to anyone intending to engage in criminal active shooting: If they kill, wound or otherwise threaten the public, they will be neutralized, and that could be lethal. Mark Dannels, deputy commander with the Cochise County Sheriff’s...

NEW Zealand effectively outlawed smacking children today by removing a statutory defence for parents. A private Bill sponsored by a Green Party MP, which removed an existing legal defence of "reasonable force" to correct a child was passed by an overwhelming majority. "It is about our children and what I believe is their God-given right to grow up secure in the love of their family, valued as equal citizens to the rest of us and without the constant threat of legalised violence being used against them," the law's sponsor, Sue Bradford of the Green Party, said in Parliament.

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007 – The possibility of sending a contingent of military police to Iraq to augment the more than 21,500 American combat troops already earmarked for deployment there was foreseen by military planners, the top U.S. officer in Iraq said today. “What has been asked for subsequent to the combat formations are the typical enablers that go with the combat formations,” Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, told reporters during a Baghdad news conference. Petraeus assumed command of Multinational Force Iraq on Feb. 10. The possibility that U.S. commanders in Iraq might request...

FORWARD OPERATION BASE BUCCA, Iraq — Members of the 33rd Military Police Battalion based in Bloomington gave a special Christmas gift to a 15-year-old Iraqi boy who was dying of brain cancer.

Rebel MPs wreck Australia's tough immigration plans By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 15/08/2006) A revolt by backbench MPs forced the Australian government to abandon a controversial immigration law yesterday. The legislation would have meant that asylum seekers were sent to a detention centre on the remote South Pacific island of Nauru while their applications were processed. Opponents said that asylum seekers, including women and children, would be kept behind razor wire for months or years in a refugee equivalent of Guantanamo Bay. John Howard, the prime minister, had to take the humiliating step of withdrawing the legislation, knowing that...

MPs revolt over plan to put asylum seekers on an island By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 11/08/2006) Australia's prime minister, John Howard, suffered the biggest parliamentary revolt of his decade in power yesterday over a proposal to send asylum seekers to remote island detention centres while their claims are processed. Three members of his Liberal Party voted against the Bill and one abstained. It was the worst breach of party loyalty confronted by Mr Howard since he won office from the Labour prime minister Paul Keating in 1996. John Howard shrugged off the party rebellion Despite the MPs' rebellion,...

Angry MPs demand recall of parliament Discontent over UK's Lebanon policy Patrick Wintour, Ewen MacAskill and Oliver Burkeman in New York Wednesday August 9, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Up to 100 MPs, most of them Labour, are to demand an immediate recall of parliament to debate the crisis in Lebanon because of growing fears about the government's strategy. The call is expected to come in the next 48 hours and its organisers have been in discussion with the Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist parties. Negotiations are also under way with campaign groups backing the call for an immediate ceasefire that...

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2006 – Additional U.S. military police will deploy to Baghdad to serve alongside Iraqi law enforcement officers, President Bush said here today following a White House meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The move is part of a new strategy to stem stepped up insurgent violence plaguing the city. "This plan will involve embedding more U.S. military police with Iraqi police units to make them more effective," Bush said in a news briefing. The reinforcements will be sent to Baghdad in coming weeks from other parts of Iraq, Bush said. "Our military commanders tell me that...

U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Mitchell searches a fellow soldier, U.S. Army Sgt. Scott Greene, as Afghan National Police officers observe at an Afghan National Army outpost in the Kohi Sofi District about 40 kilometers south of Bagram, Afghanistan, June 3, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Army Staff Sgt. Robert R. Ramon U.S. Army MPs Mentor Afghan National Police U.S. soldiers realized the Afghan National Police could benefit from the knowledge and experience they had gained while providing security at checkpoints. By U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert R. Ramón 345th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, June 16, 2006...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO. — As curious as it might sound, in his 11th week of basic training, Army Pvt. Branden Nethken pulled on drab green coveralls and practiced the most convincing Arabic accent a Tennessee boy could muster. His assignment for the morning, at the U.S. Army's first-ever mock detention facility, was to play the role of a disgruntled detainee captured in a war zone. Other soldiers in his company were dressed in combat gear, taking on the role of guards. "They told us to act as if we didn't want to be here," Nethken, 19, said with a...

U.S. Army Spc. Rachel Carey, a military police officer deployed to Towr Kham Fire Base, Afghanistan, prepares her 50-caliber machine gun for a mission near the Pakistan border. Carey, a 21-year-old native of Aurora, Ill., assigned to the 272nd Military Police Company “Fighting Deuce� in Mannheim, Germany, is serving a one-year tour here. Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matt Summers 'Fighting Deuce' MPs Patrol Afghan Mountains U.S. soldiers assigned to the 272nd Military Police Company, based in Mannheim, Germany, go outside the wire daily to interdict, intercept and deter enemies of Afghanistan. By U.S....

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Jon Cope, of Phoenix, Ariz., holds a little girl he called "Gypsy" in the village of Al Risallah, located near the Abu Ghraib district of western Baghdad. Cope and his unit, the 860th Military Police Company from the Arizona Army National Guard, spent a year in Iraq working to train Iraqi police officers and to forge a bond of trust with local citizens. U.S. Army photo courtesy 860th Military Police Company Arizona Guard MPs Reflect on Iraq Deployment Heading home after a yearlong deployment, Arizona National Guard MPs look back upon their year training Iraqi...

MPs vote to ban 'glorification' (Filed: 15/02/2006) Tony Blair has won a key battle over his plans to toughen anti-terrorism laws, after MPs voted by 315 to 277 to make "glorification" of terrorism a criminal offence. Tony Blair said the measures were 'vital' The result overturns an amendment to the Terrorism Bill by the House of Lords which sought to strike the offence from the legislation. Opposition peers will now have to decide whether to try to reinstate the amendment when the Bill returns to the upper chamber - triggering a constitutional stand-off with the Commons. The result will come...

MP's warning over 'blue-eyed foreigner' on Japanese throne By Colin Joyce in Tokyo (Filed: 03/02/2006) A senior Japanese politician has attacked plans to allow a reigning empress in case the child of "a blue-eyed foreigner" succeeds to the ancient Chrysanthemum Throne. The remark by an MP and former trade minister, Takeo Hiranuma, highlighted the way conservatives see the emperor as head of the Japanese race and equate national vigour with racial purity.The government wants to change the law to allow Princess Aiko, the four-year-old granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, to become second in line to the throne. Polls show overwhelming support...

MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin National Guard unit has won a prestigious award for its performance in Iraq. The Milwaukee-based 32nd Military Police Company has become the first Wisconsin National Guard unit to win a Valorous Unit Award, which is handed out for "extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy," according to a statement issued by the state National Guard on Friday. An order from Army Secretary Francis Harvey praised the 32nd for working tirelessly to set up security after Saddam Hussein's government fell. The award is the equivalent of a Silver Star, the Army's third highest award for...

Suicide bombers killed 52 worshippers at a mosque in western Iraq on Friday, while in Baghdad two car bombs killed eight Iraqis and destroyed the blast wall protecting a hotel housing foreign journalists. The suicide attackers targeted the Sheik Murad Shi'ite mosque in Khanaqin, 140 kilometers (87 miles) northeast of Baghdad, as dozens of people were attending Friday prayers, police said. Iraqi army Col. Hazim al-Sudani said 52 people were killed and 65 injured in the largely Kurdish town. The blast near the Hamra hotel in Baghdad knocked down the blast walls protecting the hotel and blew out windows, but...

Suspects in court as Dutch police 'foil terror plot to target MPs' By Joan Clements in Rotterdam (Filed: 18/10/2005) Seven suspected Muslim terrorists appeared before a High Court judge in Rotterdam yesterday accused of plotting terrorist acts. The men, six of whom are of Moroccan origin, were arrested on Friday in an operation to foil an alleged plot to attack politicians. Among those arrested during the sweep in three cities was a 19-year-old Dutch-Moroccan, Samir Azzouz, who had been acquitted of terrorist-related charges earlier this year. Last night the police were said to have obtained an eight-minute recorded farewell message...

ANSBACH, Germany -- Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade held a departure ceremony Sept. 30 at Katterbach Kaserne for 22 Soldiers from the Special Police Training Teams. The SPTTs are a group of officers and noncommissioned officers from 4th Brigade handpicked to deploy to Iraq in order to strengthen the Iraqi Security Forces by organizing, training, equipping and mentoring the Iraqi forces.

SIERRA VISTA - When Fort Huachuca military police recognized a local man in a suspect photo, Wednesday's bank robbery investigation came together, according to Sierra Vista police. "Military police recognized the subject as someone who delivers pizzas on post," Sierra Vista police Sgt. Glenn Hillig said Thursday. The MPs then contacted city police detectives. James A. Vigg, 22, was arrested on a robbery charge shortly after midnight Thursday in connection to a silent robbery at Compass Bank, 211 S. Carmichael Ave. The alleged robber passed a note to a female teller at about 1:50 p.m. Wednesday and left with an...

MPs to get fresh vote on right to fight off burglars By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor (Filed: 12/06/2005) A revived attempt to win for householders the right to use greater force against intruders is to be launched in Parliament within weeks. Anne McIntosh, a Conservative shadow foreign office minister, unveiled plans to introduce a Householder Protection Bill after she came near to the top of the ballot for private members' legislation. Anne McIntosh The Bill will re-balance the law in favour of homeowners, enabling them to take stronger measures to defend themselves without fear of prosecution. It will carry...

AMSTERDAM — The Dutch Parliament wants to ban the supply of prescription medicine via internet websites following the recent overdose death of a depressive 44-year-old woman. A majority of Lower House MPs will now ask Health Minister Hans Hoogervorst to ban internet prescriptions, RTL News reported. Liberal VVD MP Schippers told television programme Nova on Monday night that the Gelderland woman committed suicide after obtaining the medicine from www.dokteronline.com. The doctor prescribed the painkiller Depronal, which is regulated under the Dutch opium law. He had no personal contact with the woman, who had tried on previous occasions to commit suicide....

The Army MP's, the Marines MP's and the Air Force Police decide to go on a survival weekend together to see who comes out top. After some basic exercises the Instructor tells them their next objective is to go down into the woods and come back with a rabbit for dinner. First up are the Army. They don their infra-red goggles, drop to the ground and crawl into the woods in formation. Absolute silence occurs for 5 mins, followed by a single muffled shot. They emerge with a rabbit, shot cleanly through the forehead. "Excellent work" says the Instructor. Next...

Tony Blair will today face sharp questioning when he meets his MPs and peers for the first time since the Iraq Survey Group's finding that Saddam Hussein destroyed his weapons of mass destruction long before the war. Anti-war MPs are predicting "high levels of anger" when the prime minister addresses them for the first time since July at a private meeting of the parliamentary Labour party. At the last meeting, Iraq was barely addressed but with the ISG's findings and the death of British hostage Ken Bigley, the mood among some backbenchers has hardened. "The ISG report just proves everything...

Polish MPs call for war damages from Germany By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 11/09/2004) Poland's parliament voted overwhelmingly yesterday to instruct the government to demand compensation from Germany for its actions during the Second World War. The resolution, backed by 320 MPs with one abstention, also signalled a rejection of claims by millions of ethnic Germans for compensation in return for their deportation. The claims were dismissed as "illegal and unfounded". More than 130 MPs were absent for the vote, a signal of the power of the issue in the popular mind. The vote indicated how heated the reparations...

Labour MPs will join fight in US to dislodge Bush By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor (Filed: 25/07/2004) Senior Labour MPs are clamouring to join the American presidential campaign of John Kerry this summer in a direct snub to the alliance between Tony Blair and President George W. Bush. The avowed intent of a dozen MPs to dislodge Mr Bush threatens to embarrass Mr Blair at a difficult time in the war against terrorism. Yesterday one of the Labour MPs denounced Mr Bush as "a complete and utter menace to the future security of the world". The group, which includes...

Israeli soldiers open fire on visiting British MPs By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem (Filed: 20/06/2004) Parliamentarians demand an investigation into the 'lunatic' behaviour of defence forces at Rafah refugee camp, where two British protesters were shot dead last year. A group of British parliamentarians have demanded an investigation into the "lunatic" behaviour of Israeli soldiers after they were shot at during a tour of Gaza's Rafah refugee camp, the site of two fatal shootings of British citizens since April last year. Huw Irranca-Davies, a member of Labour Friends of Israel, Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate, and Lady Northover,...

In some of the most incendiary criticism yet of the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is comparing U.S. mistreatment of detained Iraqi terror suspects to the kind of tactics employed by Adolf Hitler's "Gestapo" police. Warning against taking the scandal too lightly, McCain told radio host Don Imus on Tuesday, "If you go down that slippery slope, OK - you decide, OK, well, this torture is OK - then what's the difference between us and the Gestapo?" Before invoking the specter of the Third Reich's brutal police units, the Arizona Republican denounced the notion that some of...

British Parliament's Clubby, Boozy Atmosphere Wrecked by New Working Hours, Members Say Mar 6, 2004 By Ed Johnson/ Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) - Parliament's late-night culture of hard drinking, boozy debates and midnight votes could make a comeback if a large segment of disgruntled British lawmakers gets its way. A campaign is growing in the neo-gothic Palace of Westminster to ditch the new "family friendly" working hours and revert to more nocturnal sittings. Many MPs, or members of Parliament, argue that their timetable, which gets most House of Commons business wrapped up by 7 p.m., has destroyed the raucous,...

Spc. Michael Speed is about to become one of the new sheriffs in town. So are Spcs. David Dillivan and Billy McCormick. So are nearly 200 more Army National Guard artillery soldiers from Tennessee who, this month, will join active Army military police forces a long way from their homes. Those citizen-soldiers from Tennessee's 2nd Battalion, 115th Field Artillery, have been reclassified as military police officers after four weeks of nonstop training here because, for the time being, the Army needs a lot more MPs than it needs artillery troops to help wage the global war against terrorism. That's why...

Dutch MPs approve asylum exodus The issue of asylum seekers has divided Dutch society The Dutch lower house of parliament has approved a controversial bill from the centre-right government to expel 26,000 asylum seekers. The plans would force the failed applicants, many of whom have lived in the Netherlands for years, to leave over a three-year period. About 2,300 others will be given leave to stay. The new policy is bitterly opposed by large sections of the traditionally tolerant society. DUTCH ASYLUM APPLICATIONS 2000: 43,560 2002: 18,670 2003: Estimated 10,000 Sources: Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics & Dutch Refugee Council...

Palmer Elementary School's principal and two teachers won't be at their jobs Monday, as Milwaukee Public Schools officials investigate allegations that staff at the school gave students answers to standardized tests. An anonymous tipster claimed that staff gave students answers to questions on the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination and TerraNova test, both taken in November. The tipster also said staff photocopied test booklets and allowed students to practice the tests at school and at home. On Friday, MPS officials questioned the principal and staff at the school, located at 1900 N. 1st St., in the Brewers Hill neighborhood. Later,...

Iranian MPs resign en masse Staff and agencies Wednesday January 21, 2004 Many Iranian cabinet ministers and other senior officials have tendered their resignations over hardliners' disqualification of parliamentary candidates, the Iranian vice-president said today, warning that the country's entire reformist government was ready to quit over the affair. "A number of cabinet ministers and a number of vice-presidents have resigned. Naturally, they are waiting to see how things go, but the cabinet ministers are very serious in their resignation," Mohammad Ali Abtahi told reporters after a cabinet meeting at the presidential palace. Asked whether the country's president, Mohammad Khatami,...

French MPs reappraise plan to outlaw veils Schools ban forms focus for discontent Jon Henley in Paris Tuesday January 20, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The French government's plan to ban Islamic veils from schools came under sustained fire yesterday when MPs, shaken by a weekend of protests and violence, began asking whether the move would inflame religious tensions rather than ease them. Most commentators feel President Jacques Chirac has invested too much in the proposed ban to back down now. But fears that the bill may alienate Muslims more than it helps integrate them have been significantly increased by marches...

<p>Relatives of four Army reservists from Pennsylvania who are accused of beating and abusing Iraqi prisoners say they fear their loved ones are targets of a vendetta.</p> <p>The four U.S. soldiers accused of abusing prisoners of war include, clockwise from top left, Sgt. Timothy Canjar, Master Sgt. Lisa Marie Girman, Staff Sgt. Scott A. McKenzie and Sgt. Shawna L. Edmondson.</p>

<p>The effort to impose civil order in Iraq has put a spotlight on the Army's growing need for military police, the closest thing the U.S. has to peacekeeping soldiers. But adding more of them is more complex than it sounds.</p>

How we blew it in Iraq Posted: July 11, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Most of the attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq since "the end of hostilities" have come mainly from remnants of Saddam Hussein's military forces, which have shed their uniforms and faded into the civilian populace. This would not have happened if the U.S. had properly prepared for the invasion of Iraq by ensuring it had sufficient military police and rear-guard forces to incarcerate Iraqi prisoners – many thousands of whom had to be released rather than held and properly interrogated. Not only did...

US rethinks tactics after Turkish MPs block troops By Pelin Turgut in Istanbul and Rupert Cornwell in Washington 03 March 2003 American military planners were urgently reshaping tactics for an invasion of Iraq yesterday after the surprise vote of the Turkish parliament to reject the deployment of some 62,000 US troops to Turkish bases. The vote, barring an unlikely reversal this week, would seem to rule out opening a second front in the north. Saturday's vote did produce a majority – of 264 to 250 – in favour of the deployment, but fell four votes short of the required majority...

Tony Blair is meeting with his close ally, the Prime Minister of Spain, after suffering the biggest revolt against his leadership after 122 Labour MPs voted against his policy on Iraq. Blair defiant The Government insisted it would not be deflected from taking military action to disarm Saddam Hussein despite suffering what is thought to be the biggest Commons backbench revolt in modern times. The rebel MPs were among 199 from all parties who voted to say the case for war against Iraq has not yet been proved. They expressed their opposition to Mr Blair's stance during a Commons debate...