Word: interdicting
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...Where they're building [them] is right in our battle space," says Grigsby. "We know that." Because of the time taken to acquire and assemble bomb parts, his men seek to interdict bomb materiel and maintain pressure on the militants, to put them on the defensive in the hopes of disrupting their offensive plans. Capt. Richard Thompson, 35, explains the thinking: "If we don't kill or capture a bad guy that [particular], night the message to him is still, you are not safe...
...international community can also make it difficult for rogue nuclear states to make a buck off their new technology. To its credit, the Bush Administration has implemented the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a program now involving about 80 countries. They work to interdict material and equipment they believe is headed for use in the production of weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. and its allies credit improved intelligence sharing and cooperation for successes like the October 2003 interdiction of the German-owned ship BBC China, which was intercepted carrying centrifuge components to Libya. But there are still huge gaps...
...This is tougher language than [North Korea] has ever heard publicly from either Moscow or Beijing, and the language about cooperation on stopping missile trade will significantly help Administration efforts to interdict North Korea shipments of weapons and materials around the world." Referring to China's surprising "yes" vote on the resolution, Green says: "The subtext of China's message to Pyongyang is that further provocations may well lead to sanctions...
...been beaten. From the nature of the fight and interviews with insurgents before the attack, it seems clear the nationalist and jihadist leadership had by and large already left the city along with much of their ranks, leaving behind, in classic guerrilla style, a rearguard detail to harass and interdict U.S. forces. The Americans in Fallujah got a taste of what they may confront across Iraq's restive Sunni triangle as the military command attempts to root out the insurgents from their sanctuaries. They are a tenacious enemy who fight as any guerrilla force might--never head on, always from...
...default position that resulted from the failure of the talks and the policy drift inside the administration was unlikely to produce a happy result for Washington or its allies. The U.S. began implementing plans to interdict North Korean shipping on the high seas to stop exports of drugs and weapons - a move that would almost certainly provoke North Korea to raise the ante through some new reckless gesture. And North Korea announced that it was steaming ahead on its nuclear weapons program, repeatedly claiming it had reprocessed all of the spent fuel rods previously under IAEA seal at Yongbyon, which...