Israel says the purpose is to keep weapons out of Gaza and to prevent rocket fire into the Jewish state.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Democrats charged that the real purpose of the law was to keep radical Republican state governments in power.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

They also keep watch on the American state of Hawaii from an operations center near Honolulu.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Israel wants to keep militants from obtaining weapons such as rockets that have been fired on civilians inside the Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10