Word: interdicting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Aviv terror attack was not unexpected. Indeed, the Israeli authorities had been aware of a general threat, and had worked hard to interdict the bombers who traveled from the West Bank. Israel security officials say that despite Israel's reoccupation and continued military operations throughout the West Bank for the past eight months, they still face up to 40 specific threats a week - and some are bound to get through...
...that the FBI is poised to send agents back into Yemen because of intelligence reports that al Qaeda loyalists may try to establish bases in that nation's lawless areas. Yemen, along with Pakistan, is considered top priority by the FBI and the intelligence community as they try to interdict fleeing Bin Laden operatives scrambling to find sanctuary...
...Somalia became a focus of attention again last week when it emerged that the U.S. and nato allies have stepped up surveillance flights over suspected al-Qaeda camps there. The Navy has deployed ships off the Somali coast to interdict suspicious vessels. State Department envoys are also visiting Mogadishu, urging its year-old transitional government to share intelligence on al-Qaeda and warning that Somalia could become the next target if it harbors the terrorists. But the U.S. doesn't think al-Qaeda fighters have reached there yet. "Obviously, Somalia is a place of concern," says a senior State Department...
...refusing to fly because they can imagine the once-unimaginable, and terrorists will refuse to create the once-unimaginable because it is no longer unimaginable. The sag in airplane travel epitomizes the double-edged sword that imaginative free rein provides. While this license will force us to face and interdict the worst acts imaginable done by one group of humans to others, rampant credulity of imagination creates irrational and damaging fears. The key is to harness this imaginative credibility for vigilance and not paranoia...
...think only a few superior handlers--a Commander X or two--sent perhaps by HQ at the penultimate moment, knew how the final pieces were meant to fit together. They're the ones Washington desperately wants to find, because they might provide the definitive link to bin Laden and interdict more terrorist acts...