Maliki declared that Iraq was not willing to be a staging ground for covert operations against other countries.

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Those troops would help train Afghan forces and also carry out operations against al-Qaida and other militant groups.

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While the Chinese plan to dominate their waters and eventually ours, we are helping them increase their effectiveness with invitations to RIMPAC and other exercises and by including them in joint operations like the one directed against Somali piracy.

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Just as Ha'aretz's campaign against Baruch-Sharvit will frighten other military lawyers called upon to assess the legality of proposed operations into refusing to make decisions, so incidents like this will make commanders in the field think twice before they tell their soldiers to protect themselves.

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" From it, the Iranian mullahs evidently hope to create terrorist groups that will enable them not only to "conduct operations against Serbs" but also to "be used as a means of subversion in other parts of Europe .

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They also allege that police offers got involved in a number of other criminal activities - kidnapping drug dealers and their relatives for ransom, and conducting security operations against them if they failed to pay the bribes.

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