Gen. Paul D. Eaton ticked off the current Iraqi security staff: 92,000 police officers, 74,000 facility guards, 25,000 civil defense soldiers, 17,000 border guards and 7,000 army soldiers.
The parliament recently voted to increase the salaries of civil servants, which include oil facility guards, and government officials have threatened to arrest strike leaders.
After the fall of Gaddafi it was hoped they would settle down if given proper jobs, and thousands were recruited into the petroleum facility guards where they have continued causing trouble.
At least some, if not many, of these assaults are being perpetrated by ICE officers, contracted facility guards, and even medical professionals.
For the rebels, who said they worked with the oil facilities guard units to advance demands that would satisfy both groups, the deal signals a move towards what they hope will be political recognition.
In Steyerl's most recent work, she contrasts footage of a Turkish museum housing Syrian refugees with that of tax-free art storage facilities guarded by paramilitary forces, brilliantly undermining naïve fantasies about the autonomy of art.
In fact, in deeply buried and hardened facilities guarded by sophisticated anti-air defense systems.
In Texas juvenile justice facilities, guards are not permitted to use Tasers and pepper spray is only allowed in certain instances -- yet police can still use such weapons in schools.
Solidarity's leaders, gathered at Gdańsk, were arrested and isolated in facilities guarded by the Security Service (Służba Bezpieczeństwa or SB), and some 5,000 Solidarity supporters were arrested in the middle of the night.
In 2011, FARC guerrillas killed a police officer there, but when I arrived at the facility a guard seemed happy to have company.
