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Others credit the now common presence of private armed guards on many ships, a trend that accelerated starting in 2010, when various countries agreed to allow ships flying their flags to carry armed personnel.
It suggested, for example, that cruise ships carry armed "sea marshals," that the state issue new rules for flight training schools and that law enforcement officials get powers to detain those suspected of terrorism "for a reasonable period".
They are travelling further afield and taking more risks, after finding the tactics that worked in the past are bearing less fruit, particularly now merchant ships can carry armed security teams that fight machine-gun fire with machine-gun fire.
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Pickup trucks carrying armed men drove into Kirkuk from the town of Hawija, witnesses said.
And not one ship carrying armed security has been hijacked, as Cameron pointed out.
"Yes, but they come with me," he said, gesturing to the car behind us, which was carrying armed bodyguards.
Two or three hours into the journey, the traffic of Toyotas, most of them carrying armed men, got thicker, and the dust they kicked up was impenetrable.
No ship carrying armed guards has so far been hijacked.Most of the companies providing these guards are British, typically started by entrepreneurial former special-forces types.
We travelled in a convoy of 4x4s, many of them carrying armed men, with a couple of trucks armed with machine guns - technicals they are sometimes called.
The party escaped on the raft, only reaching the island ahead of the pursuing proas with the assistance of boats sent to meet them carrying armed Royal Marines.
"And we will never allow any armed group to carry arms as an alternative to the state to provide security to the citizens".
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