Notes are often folded in half, so the security strip should never be in the middle.
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Also because of more advanced card security measures used in European countries, a passport is often required to make purchases with American cards that rely on a magnetic strip for security.
Yet the powers the Security Council gave itself to strip-search Iraq are greater than any it is likely to have again.
Behind the intense security the main business of the EU summit had been to revive a plan to open up European markets and strip away regulation in areas ranging from transport and energy to job security.
Today, Israel maintains a security buffer between the Egyptian controlled Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip.
Its isolated branch on a Lake Victoria island receives money from the sky: with no landing strip, planes drop bags of cash to be collected by staff and security guards.
Egypt's state news agency quoted a top security official who said the gunmen were "jihadists" who had infiltrated from the Gaza Strip.
Israel insists Vanunu still poses a security threat and he is banned from leaving Israel - including visiting the West Bank and Gaza Strip - or talking to foreigners without permission.
Anxious casino executives were pleading with Higgins to help fend off the rolling blackouts that were hitting California: A dark half-hour on the Strip could mean tens of millions of gaming dollars lost, not to mention a security nightmare.
Since Indian ATMs don't require the double identification of RFID smart card and magnetic strip, just the strip, they were able to manage quite a bit of cash before a vigilant security guard spotted them making withdrawls from multiple cards in succession.
This episode comes in the wake of the recent Israeli operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in which the US and key European governments were remarkably sympathetic to Israel's security concerns.
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