Other speakers at News Xchange noted that journalists and their assistants were equally under threat from armed groups and criminals.
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That is, the Obama administration is forcing Israel to weigh the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran against the threat of an abrogation of its strategic alliance with the US in the event that it prevents Iran from becoming a nuclear power on its own.
Would we allow the Israelis - who are under no illusion that their country faces an existential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran - to act alone against a danger we may share?
Watchdog groups have been calling on Libyan authorities to rein in armed groups that they say continue to pose a threat to the country's future.
America now wants more stringent inspection and verification of the North's missile and nuclear programmes, along with reductions in the threat posed by North Korea's armed forces, which are mostly massed along the border with the South.
Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hamre said the biggest Year 2000 threat to the U.S. military stems from the lack of focus on the part of many allied countries where U.S. forces are based.
The biggest threat to democratic change in Peru comes from the armed forces.
Earlier this month, a committee of MPs warned that the UK was being complacent about the threat to national security from a cyber attack on the armed forces.
"We do not know yet if the mail presented a threat, " said Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
In the wake of the recent revelation of a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report about the discovery in Iraq of some 500 chemical weapons, the House Armed Services Committee took testimony from military intelligence and civilian experts about the threat posed - both before and after Iraq's liberation - by these and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) amassed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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The teams typically consist of two people, both armed with high-powered rifles, either of whom can shoot to deter an imminent threat.
While the proposed use of drones is for surveillance purposes only, the Security Council resolution authorizing UN operations in the DRC could allow for the drones to be armed and would authorize the use of force if necessary to protect individuals from an imminent threat of violence.
Officers were originally only allowed to use them when confronted by an armed attacker, but in July 2007 those powers were extended to include incidents of serious violence or threat.
The first is that although the West is safe in the sense that the existential threat of invasion by a malevolent foreign power or a first strike by a nuclear-armed aggressor is now vanishingly small, the rise of jihadist terrorism has left people feeling vulnerable.
Brazil's armed forces did not propose the defence council, nor do they see the American presence in Colombia as a threat.
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