We gamers are familiar with endless amounts of Call of Duty-type shooters placing us in the middle of dangerous missions to take out high profile targets, and rarely do we ever hear about operations of this caliber in real life.
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But he warned that insurgents were changing tactics to focus on high profile targets such as August's raid on the British Council offices in Kabul and the recent assassination of the country's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, which he described as a "major setback".
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But the Taliban remain a potent threat and have once again stepped up their pace of attacks in recent months, especially operations against high-profile targets like Pakistani military bases.
The Metropolitan Police has stepped up its surveillance of social media in recent months, claiming it helped prevent this summer's riots spreading to high-profile targets such as the 2012 Olympics site.
Prince Turki dismisses such a theory, arguing that the killers go for the softest targets and if they really did have helpers in positions of authority they would be able to attack much more high-profile targets causing "terrible destruction" .
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At issue is the most powerful document in America - one that gives holders access to guns, high-profile terror targets, money from overseas and the appearance of legitimacy at security checkpoints: a driver's license.
Initially, there was speculation that al-Qaeda which favours spectacular attacks on high-profile soft targets was responsible, but statements by American officials suggest that the investigation of at least the Jordanian incident is focusing on indigenous Iraqi groups.
In February and March, I conducted a series of interviews with generals, ex-intelligence officials and security analysts in Pakistan, after another set of high profile raids led to certain high value Taliban targets ending up in Pakistani custody.
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"The ACLU doesn't object to cameras at high-profile public places that are potential terrorist targets, " he said.
Police launched a new investigation this year into hacking by journalists in response to widespread complaints from politicians, celebrities and other high-profile figures who fear they have been targets.
Police launched the new investigation this year in response to widespread complaints from high-profile figures who feared they may have been targets.
While Israel launched a large-scale, high-profile military operation late last year focused on targets in Gaza, tensions have been rising more recently in the West Bank.
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Targets in New York's letter-writing campaign include the high-profile 23andMe, in Mountain View, Calif, (run by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin) and Navigenics, of Redwood Shores, Calif.
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