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The first 700-man battalion of the new Iraqi Army took the field in early October under the command of Maj.

So far, 650 former guerrillas have been chosen for the first infantry battalion of the new force, which will expand over three years to a full strength of 1,500 regular soldiers and 1,500 reservists.

Armed with Kalashnikov rifles and Russian-style helmets, the soldiers are part of the Third Battalion of the new Afghan National Army and are the first to be deployed on active duty outside Kabul.

The "Gulf Cartel" has recruited a battalion of the new anti-drugs policemen, turning them into a notorious band of enforcers known as Los Zetas (the Zs).As a result of the pressure, Mexico's drug industry is mutating in ways that Colombia's did a decade ago, into smarter, low-profile businesses which are harder to penetrate.

The first battalion of the new Iraqi Army went through a nine-week training course late last year, but within two months of its graduation, nearly half of the battalion's 700 soldiers had quit because their pay, about $60 a month, was too low.

Some 25percentnt of the Iraqi police are back at work now, and the US administrator was predicting the first battalion of the new Iraqi army to be formed in about two months' time, along with eight battalions of a new 'civil defence corps'.

Two more battalions of the new multiethnic army were dispatched to the province on Sunday, forcing back the forces of the governor, Ismail Khan.

The $327 million contract was to supply several battalions of the new Iraqi security forces with rifles, uniforms, body armor and other equipment.

Using gear captured from the old Iraqi security forces, division officers were able to equip all seven battalions of the new Iraqi defense corps that they recruited and trained.

It is an undertaking that gained fresh urgency with mutinies and desertions involving one of the first battalions of the new army, many regional police forces and elements of the newly formed Iraqi Civil Defense Force under the challenge of the uprisings that exploded in April in Falluja and several cities across southern Iraq.

These two regular regiments became, respectively, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the new regiment.