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Mexican Navy Uncovers Drugs Inside Frozen Sharks
(CNN) -- The Mexican navy smelled something fishy and their intuition paid off. They found nearly a ton of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of frozen sharks.
Navy inspectors at the southeastern port of Progreso, in Yucatan state, on Tuesday detected an anomaly in two shipping containers during a routine X-ray, according to a navy news release.
The inspectors zeroed in on a shipment of sharks. Upon slitting one of the frozen fish open, they found black bags containing rectangular packets filled with cocaine.
In all, authorities recovered 870 packages of cocaine, weighing 894 kilograms (about 1,967 pounds), the navy reported Wednesday.
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Thousands Remain in FEMA Trailers
 Thousands of residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina four years ago are still living in government-issued trailers, federal data indicate. The federal government has made it a priority to move the Mississippi and Louisiana residents from the temporary trailers, especially after formaldehyde and other toxins were found in them.
This month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development agency announced programs to help relocate residents from the trailers, including $50 million in housing vouchers, USA Today reported.
The numbers in Mississippi and Louisiana -- 781 families and 2,100 families, respectively -- and are down considerably from the 134,000 temporary trailers and mobile homes sent to the Gulf Coast immediately after Katrina devastated the area in August 2005. Some families are living in the trailers because of hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which struck Louisiana last summer.
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August 17-21, 2009
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Homeland Security Kills Domestic Satellite Program
By Eileen Sullivan
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano killed a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law enforcement.
In an announcement Tuesday, Napolitano said she made the decision after a five-month review of the program. After consulting local officials, Napolitano said the department should focus on other priorities to help share information with state and local law enforcement agencies.
The program, called the National Applications Office, was announced in 2007 and was to have the Homeland Security Department use overhead and mapping imagery from existing satellites for homeland security and law enforcement purposes.
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LAPD Names its First Islamic Chaplain
By Duke Helfand
Police leaders hope that the new chaplain, who has a history of building bridges between Muslims and law enforcement, can help officers understand his community better.
American Muslims have never been much of a presence in the Los Angeles Police Department, accounting for less than 1% of its nearly 10,000 officers.
But now, with department leaders eager to improve relationships with local Muslims, top brass have named the force's first Islamic chaplain: a Pakistani-born spiritual leader who has spent much of the last decade trying to build bridges between law enforcement and Los Angeles County's diverse Muslim communities.
Sheik Qazi Asad, 47, will serve as a reserve chaplain at the LAPD's North Hollywood station. The volunteer post requires about eight hours of service each month. But to Asad and his LAPD patrons, it represents an opportunity to expose officers to a culture and faith that many may find unfamiliar, even foreign.
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Eastern Michigan University Gets Federal Grant to Develop Emergency Management Plan
by Tracy Davis
Eastern Michigan University has received a $490,517 federal grant to help develop its emergency management plan.
The plan is a comprehensive framework for addressing any emergency situation that could arise, a subject of increasing focus on college campuses in the wake of the 2007 Virginia Tech and 2008 Northern Illinois University campus shootings.
The grant will allow EMU to make the plan even more comprehensive and do so more quickly than it otherwise could have, said Ellen Gold, executive director of EMU's university health services.
The comprehensive all-hazards plan will lay out how the university would deal with any of a variety of situations that could arise on the 800-acre campus and its 122 facilities. It will lay out how the university will manage a crisis and communicate during one and how it can continue university operations in the event of a disaster.
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Columbus SWAT Team Adds Paramedics to Treat Wounded Officers Immediately
By Suzanne Hoholik
 These are not your typical paramedics. These guys wear body armor and helmets and join SWAT teams during raids, shootings and hostage situations.
"We used to have Columbus EMS come to the command post (from a block away), but history shows us, across the country, that's too far away if an officer gets shot," said Lt. David Wood, who leads the Columbus police SWAT squad.
"It's key to have the medics up close to the situation."
Columbus created a 24-member tactical EMS team late last year. Two members go out with the SWAT team as needed.
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Agencies Clash on Military's Border Role
By Spencer S. Hsu
 At Issue: Which One Directs Troops in Anti-Drug Mission
A proposal to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to counter drug trafficking has triggered a bureaucratic standoff between the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security over the military's role in domestic affairs, according to officials in both departments.
The debate has engaged a pair of powerful personalities, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, in what their subordinates describe as a turf fight over which agency should direct the use of troops to assist in the fight against Mexican cartels and which one should pay for them.
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Military Moves High-Tech Tools to Afghanistan
By Walter Pincus
On Saturday at 9:45 p.m., an American unmanned aerial vehicle, complete with streaming-video equipment, circled over an area in Afghanistan's Khost province and transmitted photographs of three people, including one who was digging in a roadway, apparently to plant an improvised explosive device.
Information from computer data at a ground-based Counter-IED Operations Integration Center allowed intelligence specialists to "positively identify" the three as insurgents, and thereafter "coalition forces used a precision munition to eliminate the militants," according to a U.S. military news release. The drone aircraft saw one of the insurgents running from the explosion toward nearby trees and a second precision munition was used to kill him, the release said. The military's fuzzy video of the attack can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/usfora.
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Homeland Security Is Ordered to Respond to Petition on Immigration Jails
 By Nina Bernstein
Substandard and abusive conditions in immigration detention "are of the utmost importance," a federal judge in Manhattan said Thursday, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security's 2 ½-year delay in responding to a petition for legally enforceable regulations was "unreasonable as a matter of law."
The judge, Denny Chin of Federal District Court in Manhattan, ordered the Obama administration to grant or deny the petition asking for detention rules within 30 days. He denied the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit, filed last year by two former immigration detainees and two advocacy agencies, seeking to force a response.
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Car Bomb Kills Five Policemen in Northern Iraq
 MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed five Iraqi policemen and a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter near the northern city of Mosul on Monday, police sources said, a day before U.S. combat troops withdraw from urban centres.
Most Iraqis are hailing the U.S. pullback from towns and cities as a milestone on their country's road to sovereignty six years after the U.S. military invaded to topple Saddam Hussein.
But a string of bombings in Baghdad and northern Iraq in recent days, including two of the bloodiest attacks for more than a year, have shaken confidence in their security forces.
Police sources said the car bomb was discovered on Monday at a parking lot in the mostly Christian town of Hamdaniya, about 40 km east of Mosul. They said it detonated as the officers sealed off the area. Three civilians were also wounded.
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