The includes the house of the governor of Abu Dis, the base of Force 17, which is the elite guard of Palestine Authority President Yasser Arafat, and general intelligence and preventive intelligence forces as well as the headquarters for the military and the Palestinian police.
The sanctions were aimed at Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the biggest branch of its military, which exerts significant influence in the country.
But Mr Saleh's son, Ahmed, still commands the elite Republican Guard, and three of the president's nephews hold powerful posts in the security service.
He was a commander of a unit of the elite Republican Guard and as a young man he attended military training with President Assad.
According to Ms. Davis and her sources, their principal co-conspirator, the once-sought John Doe Number 2, appears to have been a former Iraqi soldier who wears a tattoo from Saddam's elite Republican Guard.
The elite Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization are likely to fight hard.
Ahmed Abdullah Saleh, the son of Yemen's president, runs both the country's Republican Guard and an elite commando unit.
Published reports say the Bush administration is about to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard, an elite branch of the country's military, a foreign terrorist organization.
The 100, 000 or so battle-ready troops of Republican Guard and other elite units may stand and fight, rather than flee or surrender, but they will expose themselves to devastating air attacks.
He said it found a network of jamming systems scattered around big cities operated by the Revolutionary Guard, Iran's elite military unit.
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Mr. Khamenei and his elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, however, are seen as capable of holding the peace process hostage.
The agency accused the group of training Syrian government personnel inside Syria, and facilitating the training of Syrian forces by the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"We turned the ball over a ton, and I thought our spacing was horrendous in the second half, " said Boston coach Doc Rivers, citing a pair of problems that an elite, or even solid, point guard would eliminate.
Magic Johnson in his prime would be too slow to play point guard in today's locomotive landscape, just as Larry Bird would be too slow to guard any of today's elite small forwards.
They would match the elite front court of Chandler, Stoudemire and Anthony with a C-list guard duo of Landry Fields and, for now, Toney Douglas, since Chauncey Billups would have to be jettisoned for salary-cap purposes.
Some of the lucre has gone to finance the pro-poor subsidies beloved of the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but big sums have also found their way into the pockets of senior clerics, former Revolutionary Guard commanders and well-connected businessmen at the heart of the economic elite.
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