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In September he tried to get a paramilitary force to seize control of Baghdad airport during a pay dispute with a London-based firm that runs airport security.
ECONOMIST: Iraq
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The U.S. State Department envisions the Afghan officers as taking on a traditional police role, while the Department of Defense wants them to be more of a paramilitary force, Shook says.
NPR: U.S. Launches Aggressive Training for Afghan Police
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The victims comprised of an assistant police sub-inspector and three members of the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force which uses recruits from Pakistan's tribal areas and is overseen by Pakistani army officers.
CNN: Suicide attack kills 4 in Pakistan
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Richard Jameson is thought to have been shot by the Loyalist Volunteer Force, a dubious and late signatory to paramilitary ceasefires.
ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland
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The paramilitary splinter group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), issued a statement denying the two men had any links to its organisation.
BBC: Second murder victim's funeral held
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David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist Party, which has links with the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando said he did not see the UFF statement as a threat.
BBC: UFF rejects arms call