The determined manner in which elite security forces quickly overwhelmed the attackers was a display of the resolution with which the authorities are prepared to act against this terrible scourge...

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This time, she allegedly stiffed a limo company, Elite Transportation Limo and Security Services, for services from February 2009 to May 2009.

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Mr Annan warned the Security Council that Burundi's Tutsi elite and the Hutu majority were "locked in implacable hostility to one another" with steadily rising violence.

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Charlie Miller is an NSA-trained hacker with an elite reputation for tracking down dangerous security flaws in software.

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Precheck members usually get to use security lines set up for first-class and elite-level frequent fliers.

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The defense secretary earlier flew in to the southern city of Basra, amid tight security from neighboring Kuwait on a special forces aircraft with elite, black-clad special operations soldiers acting as bodyguards.

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For her elite clients, she coordinates press, and even security for VIP guests.

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Job security was ensured, as well as lifetime benefits that came with membership in the tenured elite.

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But Mr Saleh's son, Ahmed, still commands the elite Republican Guard, and three of the president's nephews hold powerful posts in the security service.

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On Saturday, Syria buried 22 members of the armed forces, including six elite pilots ambushed on a highway near Homs, following a recent upsurge of armed attacks on security forces.

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