Gen Ham said Malian troops were given plenty of tactical training, but not enough ethics training.

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But providing the Afghan security forces with tactical training is not enough.

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"On the computer, you can do whatever you want to, as long as you don't interfere with somebody's rights, " says Baez, who now heads a private firm called Executive Tactical Training.

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"We were focusing our training almost exclusively on tactical or technical matters, " he told a forum at Washington's Howard University on Thursday.

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The FBI tactical dog, a 2-year-old Czech German shepherd named Ape, had just completed its training a month ago and was on its second mission.

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