"I know of few,if any,mature democracies in the world where faced with the threat of violence and violence itself that turnout for the voters would have been higher than it was here Thursday,".

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Committee chairman James Arbuthnot, a Conservative MP, said the troops now faced a "significantly higher threat" in southern Iraq.

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The higher the threat of regulation of confiscation, the more distorted the interest rate becomes.

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"This is part of an overall risk-based security approach, which allows Transportation Security officers to better focus their efforts on finding higher-threat items such as explosives, " a TSA spokesman told the Reuters news agency.

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