The imprisoned Serbs began a hunger strike on April 12, protesting what they call "unbalanced prisoner treatment" at the hands of Western officials who are providing security forces here and trying to form a new civilian administration.
I often argue that the fundamental, irreducible function of government is to protect people and provide security from forces beyond their control.
Often, when we find out the location of a wanted bad guy, coalition forces will go down and provide security while I.A. forces actually go in and get him.
May was the least violent month since the Iraqi government started compiling such statistics, with 165 Iraqis killed in violence, but the attacks in Dora led residents to question the government's ability to provide security as American forces withdraw from the city.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford, who appeared alongside Carter, said the base was to provide security for Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors at the nearby Iraqi base in Makhmour.
Western troops are an interim force to provide security, spur development and mentor indigenous security forces until the Afghan leadership can govern alone.
They provide security for the allied forces, the Pentagon, the United Nations mission, aid and nongovernmental organizations, embassies and Western news media.
In an interview last week, Vice President Dick Cheney also cautioned against enlarging the security force: "If we rely on international forces to provide security throughout the country, that's likely to delay getting on with the business of building an Afghan Army".
"There is a clear need for an international force to provide security during the transition to a professional Afghan security force," said Barnett R. Rubin, a professor at New York University and a specialist on Afghanistan.
"The election commission did its part, but the security forces failed to provide security".
