The decision on whether actions by an approaching craft or boat are threatening must be left with the on-the-scene commander.

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But that's the role that we have to play -- to ensure that when the federal on-scene coordinator and our national incident commander make decisions that authorize BP to do different things, that the conditions at which that authorization is given are met.

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Tawheedi said the commander of government forces on the scene, Mullah Shir Gul, was interrogating Wahid about the whereabouts of Omar.

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W. Bush announced the start of the first Gulf war from the Oval Office, telling Americans and the world that he was the commander in chief just by setting the scene in the Oval Office.

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Cleveland Police Commander Wayne Drummond was one of the first responding officers to the scene.

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Barry McDowell, the service district commander, said the boy was holding on to a line when they got to the scene.

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