The exercise tested warning and emergency communications and national and local readiness.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Mrs Clinton joined a chorus of local leaders warning Iran to stay out of Arab affairs.

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Announcements were made from loudspeakers in local mosques warning that tribesmen found with such phones would be fined and the device confiscated.

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There seems little doubt that the barriers, trenches and barbed wire in place near the church can stop the Orangemen forcing their way through, but Mr MacCionnaith is warning local people to be on alert in case there's a re-run of the scenario in 1996 when the decision to block the parade was eventually reversed.

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