After denying Afghanistan as a base of operations to Al Qaeda in the fall of 2001, the United States has been able to neutralize a number of its high-ranking operatives and disrupt its operations.
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Frank Thorpe also said that Iraqi forces were using the Ali mosque in Najaf as a base of operations, firing at coalition forces from the gilded dome of the tomb of the prophet Muhammad's son-in-law.
It was all part of a public-private initiative led by Rachel Chan and supported by the Hong Kong government the idea being that these innovative startups could choose Hong Kong as a base of operations to scale.
For anyone with even a vague notion about strategy, it was clear at the time that the only way to protect northern Israel from Hizbullah was to deny Hizbullah the use of southern Lebanon as a base of operations.
In Gaza, it supported the establishment of a jihadist state that has since contributed to the transformation of Sinai into a jihadist base of operations, and it emboldened the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan.
This environment, permeated with extremist Islamic thought, has created legions of terrorists and provided them a hospitable base of operations.
An environment permeated with radical Islamic thought has, not surprisingly, created legions of terrorists and provided them a hospitable base of operations.
Beginning in the 1980s, Iran started using Latin America as a forward base of operations against the US and the West.
ODMs have greater depth in products design, stronger supplier networks, and considerable pricing leverage and a predominantly Asian base of operations that allows them to spot emerging trends in the fastest growing markets.
The afternoon featured a panel of DoD energy practitioners including a Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, current and former base commanders, and other leading defense innovators.
"This visit was part of a wider strategy of shifting the base of Osama Bin Laden's terrorist operations from the Subcontinent to South East Asia, " says one report.
In 1968, he engineered the takeover of Reliance, a Philadelphia insurance company that was cash-rich and would be his financial base of operations for the next two decades.
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While slightly smaller forces were capable of prevailing without a significant increase in risk in the base case of the analysis, a larger force was judged necessary to conduct these operations with acceptable risk when either enemy chemical weapons were used or shorter warning times were played.
Among his other assets: mobile telecom firms Globacom Holding and Globacom West Africa, two distinct companies with a combined subscriber base in excess of 30 million people and operations in Nigeria, Ghana, and Benin.
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The small town of Doylestown, PA is the base of Peasant's operations, which is a fitting origin for DeRose's intimate and earthy neo-folk songs.
During my time as an FBI agent targeting the al Qaeda network, I interviewed several operatives in the late '90s and '00s who told me how bin Laden established a base in Nairobi to facilitate the group's Somali operations under the cover of a nonprofit group called Help Africa.
France, Djibouti's former colonial ruler, still maintains a base in the territory, and America is now in the process of installing a force of 800 special-operations troops.
The base has been described as "not regular" - a phrase that implies it was a centre of CIA operations in Khost province, the BBC's Peter Greste in Kabul says.
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