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.

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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.

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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.

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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

The paramilitary splinter group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), issued a statement denying the two men had any links to its organisation.

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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.

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