• Al-Qaeda has often threatened to launch strikes on India.

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  • U.S. State Dept. spokeswoman Victoria Nuland described Pyongyang's recent actions, including previous threats to launch strikes against the U.S., as "bellicose rhetoric, " adding that it wasn't clear what legal authority Pyongyang has to unilaterally abrogate the 1953 armistice pact.

    WSJ: Pressure Rises on Korean Peninsula

  • Obama announced new "presidential policy guidelines" on the standards his administration uses when deciding to launch drone strikes.

    NPR: Obama Sees Narrower Terror Threat, Defends Drones

  • If your sworn enemy can launch massive strikes against you, he will.

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  • Besides which, the Administration has done little to prepare the American public for the possible need to launch air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities.

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  • As for his willingness to launch air strikes against Iranian nuclear targets, do you really think the administration is prepared to handle the aftermath?

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  • Attributed to its Military Command, it said the North would "launch surgical strikes at any time and any target without being bounded by the armistice accord".

    BBC: South Korea warns on North Korea threat

  • Several Nato members, including the US and France, say they will help to train an African force for the Mali operation, but have not offered to send ground troops or launch air strikes.

    BBC: Nato forces needed in Mali, says AU's Thomas Boni Yayi

  • Any negotiations with the government, they maintain, are about who controls the rest of Colombia, and to prove it they launch terrorist strikes, kidnap or kill innocents and sabotage electricity and oil pipelines.

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  • Obama announced new "presidential policy guidelines" last week on the standards his administration has been using when deciding to launch lethal strikes, including a guideline to strike a target only if it presents an "imminent threat" to U.S. national security and only if the target cannot be captured.

    NPR: Drone Strike Comes Despite Transparency Pledge

  • This isn't the conventional notion banging around Washington that the best way to weaken the mullahs is to push al-Assad out but the president's sense that when the moment of decision comes on Iran, he'll need Russian and Chinese support and as much flexibility as possible if he needs to launch military strikes.

    CNN: Obama's no-win options in Syria

  • With these, America could launch long-range strikes to obliterate regimes but not nations.

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  • Pest managers could therefore encourage people to launch pre-emptive strikes against them by organising intensive trapping campaigns at the right moment.

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  • The United States rejects the North's claim that such a deterrent is necessary, saying it does not intend to launch pre-emptive strikes against North Korea.

    NPR: Despite Threats, Risks Temper Korea War Tensions

  • Mr Walsh is right to be fearful, particularly if unions balk at his plans to cut 3, 500 jobs and opt to launch a summer of strikes.

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  • Without the ability to launch pre-emptive strikes, the naval vessels must wait until something happens until they can act, and even then they are limited in what they can do.

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  • In the past two weeks, his missiles have seven times been aimed at American and British aircraft checking Iraq's northern and southern no-fly zones, bringing down retaliatory strikes on the launch sites.

    ECONOMIST: Dealing with Iraq

  • To prevent the fall of Afghanistan, we must do more than launch a few raids or air strikes.

    WSJ: Max Boot: Bin Laden's Death Changes Little

  • Next Wednesday marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of Nato's air strikes - and the period around the anniversary is usually a tense time.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Analysis: Kosovo violence sparks fears

  • While one may argue that factors such as Iran's limited military capabilities and sheer distance diminish any conventional concerns, one should expect that Tehran, in case of preemptive strikes by American forces, would launch an asymmetrical offensive against the U.S. and its European allies through surrogate terrorist and paramilitary organizations.

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  • The US rarely comments on the details of drone strikes in Pakistan, but correspondents say that for many years Islamabad was allowed to launch them from bases within the country.

    BBC: Predator B drone (November 2011)

  • In a rare move, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said earlier in the day that Hamas was responsible for the rocket attacks, and that the Israeli strikes had prompted the group's military wing "to take a firm stance" and launch rockets.

    BBC: Hamas fires barrage of rockets into Israel

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