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Mr. Tenet met on Tuesday with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, who presented him with plans to revamp his security forces, reducing their number from more than a dozen to six.

Mr. Maliki's signal achievement since he first won office in 2006 has been consolidating control of the security forces, reducing violence through a willingness to crack down on Shiite militias from strongholds in the southern city of Basra.

He abolished conscription and was in the process of shrinking the armed forces, reducing the number of soldiers to 190,000 from 250,000, and planning to close many bases.

As is the Police National Network, which links the databases of British forces, reducing the risk of cases akin to the Soham murders, where repeat offender Ian Huntley was able to move to another county with a clean slate and able to gain employment alongside vulnerable children.

"Rather than have one department in each of the forces of Norfolk and Suffolk, we are able to combine those into smaller, more resilient departments that are able to service both forces, reducing costs but maintaining high standards of service," he said.

He scaled down the armed forces, reducing a longtime threat to democracy.

The economist Steven Levitt estimates that larger police forces reduced crime by 5percentto6percentcent.

Even with choral and orchestral forces reduced by the storm, the evening was a pleasure.

Fighting around, and eventually in, Baghdad also requires that American forces reduce the threats to American supply columns.

Some Iraqis have expressed fears that when United States forces reduce their presence in Baquba, the militants will simply return.

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