Such a move would render it difficult if not impossible for Israel to conduct counterterror operations within those temporary borders.

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Indeed, as its top counterterror officials made clear in Senate testimony on Wednesday, the administration never considered treating the terrorist as an illegal enemy combatant.

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The British have staged, without incident, huge public events such as the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 royal wedding, and counterterror police have successfully foiled some alleged terror plots.

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