He said such work should be "an ongoing priority rather than the subject of a one-off operation by the agency".
He was in command of the Allied military organization that pulled off Operation Torch (the invasion of North Africa), Operation Husky (Sicily), and Operation Overlord (Normandy).
He said his view was that "this was a one-off operation, not likely to be repeated" but that "only substantial custodial sentences can meet the requirements of the case".
He called off the operation without sending in ground troops, with all the risks that would entail, and the three-week operation was widely regarded in Israel as a success.
He described Union cooperation in Africa, including the deployment of two military operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and one in Chad, as well as a naval operation off the coast of Somalia and assistance for the African Union operation and the Transitional Federal Government in the country.
Australia has called off its rescue operation for survivors of a boat carrying asylum seekers that sank near Indonesia's Java Island.
One of the last important federally funded studies of this sort, the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program, had its cash cut off and ceased operation.
As with any business venture, the costs can be quite low to get a bare bones operation off the ground or extremely high if all the bells and whistles are added immediately.
At least three of the SEALs had participated in the sniper operation off the coast of Somalia, in April, 2009, that freed Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama, and left three pirates dead.
Then, spin off the consumer banking operation into a separate stand-alone business.
When EnCana ( ECA) spun off its oil sands operation into a separate company last year, it created a dilemma for some investors.
It put the most valuable assets, like generators, into its trading arm, which was going to be spun off as an independent operation receiving investment, and management, from Goldman.
It's crucial for Maliki's own political survival, that this operation comes off, since he's been the one who's been touting this plan as his solution to the lawlessness that's on the streets of the capital.
Well at the time I assumed that they would involve BSkyB spinning off its Sky News operation in some way, since it was the combination of Sky News and News International's newspapers that was of greatest concern to Ofcom.
Others have pointed out the mistakes the Germans made regarding Barbarossa and their supplies and equipment, but had the operation kicked off on schedule (about a month and a half before it actually began), the Wehrmacht would have had a good chance of being in Moscow before the worst of the winter hit.
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Insp Gary Ash said the operation was paying off with a number of arrests.
Despite a police search of the area, no lion was found and the operation was called off the next day.
Dutch coastguards have called off a search and rescue operation after the sinking of the Baltic Ace cargo ship in the North Sea.
BBC: Baltic Ace shipwreck: Dutch coastguards call off search
They have the legal authority to cut off funding for the Libya operation, and the defense bill is coming up in a couple weeks.
In a bid to unlock value, ConocoPhillips is planning to spin off its refining and marketing operation to shareholders as a new publicly-traded company.
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At a pinch, Mr Ebbers might even be willing to sell Sprint's long-distance network, if that was the price for carrying off Sprint's mobile operation.
Right now, central banks are engaged in a major operation to stave off the Euro sovereign debt crisis by extending global unlimited short term credit to Europe's banking system.
"Having recovered 25 dead bodies from the rubble, we have called off the search and rescue operation, " the director of Dhaka's fire brigade, Sheikh Mohammad Shahjalal, told the AFP news agency.
BBC: Bangladesh housing collapse rescue operation called off
American undercover agents mounted a sting operation after being tipped off about the plotters' attempts to buy weapons.
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Earlier this month, a handful of European Union defense ministers agreed to accelerate an EU military naval operation to fight piracy off Somalia's coast.
To help shatter the illusion that cigarettes were cool he visited schools, testified to Congress and gave public lectures, pulling off his shirt to show the operation scars that wrapped halfway round his back.
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By 2008 it will be consuming something like 0.3% of the GDP of the entire planet, and the idea that one person, however able they are, can actually deal with all the minutiae that go on in the NHS, absolutely everything from a bed pan dropping off a bed to a cancelled operation, is frankly absurd.
Once again, America needs better co-operation with allies to see off rogue states and terrorists.
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