Lieutenant Smith's lawyer, Michael Chertoff, seemed to make some headway in an attempt to find inconsistencies in the two officers' accounts, as well as conflicts with Officer Tortorella's interviews and grand jury testimony.
Defense lawyers were more successful in highlighting conflicts between Officer Tortorella and his partner than they were in tripping up Officer Tortorella over inconsistencies in his own testimony and the statement he made to investigators in 1999.
Chris Chapman, conflict prevention officer at Minority Rights International, said: "We are extremely concerned about the situation faced by minorities in Sri Lanka's conflict area.
The bride, 28, is a conflict-prevention officer in Washington with the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization.
"In my opinion, this is more about a conflict between officers than any single incident," Mr. Rocque said.
Meanwhile, a senior Labour MP has warned the government that if it goes ahead with big cuts in spending on the police, there would be "conflict" with officers.
"To continue to dwell on where our event is held, and whether my role as a D.N.C. officer conflicts with my role at a party for a good cause frankly makes no sense," Ms. Sanchez said in a statement.
Commanders assumed, wrongly, that forces trained to fight high-intensity battles could also handle low-intensity conflicts.One cavalry officer, Lieut-Colonel Paul Yingling, has denounced the failure of America's generals in Iraq as in Vietnam to prepare the army for counter-insurgency.
The recriminations eased only after 2007, when American commanders under Gen. David H. Petraeus adopted new counterinsurgency tactics that British officers saw as drawing partly on lessons Britain had learned in earlier conflicts, leading British officers to say that the Americans had finally grasped lessons missed at the outset of the war.
