Sentence examples for attack on the facility from inspiring English sources

Security experts said they worried that the initial attack on the facility had been planned well before the French operation in neighboring Mali.

But concerns remain that there has been no satisfactory explanation of how terrorists managed to carry out the attack on the facility.

As a strategy, you have to say it was brilliant: a bomb attack on the facility would have caused a gigantic political row, and might not have succeeded (because the facility is deep underground).

A U.S. intelligence official said only that the agency is "looking closely at every aspect" of the attack on the facility known as Forward Operating Base Chapman, in the province of Khost near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.

Over the past few months, Iraqi and American officials have delivered repeated assurances that the airport is secure, in an acknowledgment of the potential psychological impact of any attack on the facility or commercial aircraft.

And on Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said that 11 patients who needed surgery had died at a South Sudanese hospital the ICRC supports, after doctors and nurses fled an attack on the facility.

The options were developed in part to assess whether a physical attack on the facilities would be significantly more effective than more subtle — and deniable — sabotage of the Iranian facilities, including cyberattacks.

But when the agency delivered the plans, they were quickly rejected, all the officials said, for fear that any kind of obvious attack on the facilities could touch off another conflict in the Middle East just as a new American president was assuming office.

Also, what do you see as the consequences of an Israeli-led attack on the facilities of Iran with backing from the U.S. and the at best tacit toleration from the E.U.? Patrick Walsh, Riverside, Ill.: I did not expect to see you jump on the Rumsfeld-bashing bandwagon.

With the fleet positioned 250 nautical miles northwest of Midway at dawn (04:45 local time) on 4 June 1942, Hiryūs portion of the 108-plane airstrike was an attack on the facilities on Sand Island with 18 torpedo bombers, 1 of which aborted with mechanical problems, escorted by nine Zeros.

Iraqi officials maintain that security forces have repelled insurgent attacks on the facility.