The Alabama arrived Saturday in Mombasa, along with an 18-person armed security detail on board.
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Last month the NRA proposed placing armed security guards or police in the nation's schools.
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As a response to the Newtown shootings, the NRA has proposed that every school have armed security.
But the crew have an armed security team onboard that fires warning shots, and the pirates withdraw, waiting for easier prey.
An armed security guard near a side door exchanged gunfire with the suspect, and both sustained wounds that were not life-threatening, police said.
We knew beforehand that on the plane there were armed security men - but we didn't know that the crew were armed too.
Armed security was more acceptable at airports and train stations (49%) but not at office buildings (23%), hospitals (32%), schools (34%), and shopping malls (38%).
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The feds says KBR and its subcontractors used the private armed security between 2003 and 2006 while providing logistical support for U.S. troops in Iraq.
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President Barack Obama has promised to push for action on gun control while the National Rifle Association (NRA) has called for armed security in all American schools.
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The most dangerous episode of the hostage crisis occurred at first light on Monday morning when the hijackers saw armed security forces surrounding the plane, said the crew.
However, in the BBC documentary, Britain's Private War, it reveals the growing extent to which the UK government relies on armed security companies to protect its interests overseas.
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Yet after four hours in port, the ship was boarded and searched by armed security personel, and the captain was detained on suspicion of trafficking in arms or drugs.
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"If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy, " NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said of the anger following his initial news conference.
Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said he hoped for increased discussion on funding armed security officers in schools but voted in favor of the measure promising to negotiate details when it reaches the Senate floor.
DynCorp has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Blackwater USA in the contract to provide armed security for diplomats in Iraq following a string of security incidents involving Blackwater guards, including a September shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead.
"The presence of armed security personnel in a school adds a layer of security and diminishes the response time that is beneficial to the overall security, " said Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman who led the NRA task force that developed the report.
The mercenary outfit--founded by former Navy SEALs in 1997 and heavily involved in U.S. military efforts in Iraq--has tentative plans to build a small fleet of two or three anti-piracy vessels, each able to carry several dozen armed security personnel, according to reports in Lloyds List Maritime.
Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral, including members of the armed and security forces.
"Our government and parliament, and above all our patriotic people, have stood fully behind our brave armed forces and security personnel, " Mr Gilani said.
Thank you very much to our citizens for their services and for their co-operation and many thanks for our armed forces and security forces and the army.
On Saturday, Syria buried 22 members of the armed forces, including six elite pilots ambushed on a highway near Homs, following a recent upsurge of armed attacks on security forces.
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Security forces armed with riot gear and water cannons formed a cordon around the protesters.
The Alabama resumed its course on Thursday for Mombasa, its original destination, carrying food aid and an armed 18-person security detail.
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The soldiers, who were members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps, had been missing since 21 December when 23 soldiers were attacked by up to 100 heavily-armed militants, a security official quoted by the AFP news agency said.
Security Council members also acknowledged the important role played by the Lebanese security and armed forces in sustaining national unity and sovereignty, and welcomed steps being taken to further develop their capacities, including through the strategic dialogue with UNIFIL, and encouraged further international assistance to this end.
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Under the terms of the Oslo peace accords the Palestinian security forces are armed only with small arms - Kalashnikov assault rifles and M16s.
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