Post says Anbar province, once one of the most violent and the base of operations for al Qaeda in Iraq, has settled down under the authority of the Awakening Councils and Sons of Iraq and can get by with fewer U.S. troops.
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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.
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.
Beginning in the 1980s, Iran started using Latin America as a forward base of operations against the US and the West.
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.
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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The Washington Post reports that in a major reversal, Saudi Arabia has agreed to new agreements that will allow expanded U.S. air operations from Saudi territory, including full use of Prince Sultan Air Base as an air operations center, in the event of war against Iraq, according to senior U.S. officials and diplomatic sources.
Instead, the Fed is tasked with employing its Open Market operations to adjust the size of the monetary base so as to keep the COMEX price of gold as close as operationally practical to a target gold price.
"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.
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.
Citibank would write an absurdly pro-credit card law, the South Dakota legislature would pass it, the governor would sign it and every credit card issuer in America would move to South Dakota to establish their corporate home base so that they might be free of the limitations placed on them by most other states where they might base their operations.
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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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Correa was the first one to expel the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from Ecuador and dismantle its main base of operations in Manta.
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.
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.
That could possibly mean leaving their income revenues on foreign soil, such as Apple is doing or taking flight altogether to move their base of operations to more attractive destinations, such as threatened by the angry birds of France.
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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.
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.
The small size of such Special Operations outposts makes it relatively easy to walk off base.
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 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.
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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