Sylvester Stallone plays a traumatised FBI agent sent to recover at a suitably remote clinic catering exclusively for troubled law enforcement operatives.
The Britons were part of a formidable array of former intelligence and law enforcement operatives employed by NDS, including the one-time deputy head of the Israeli domestic intelligence service and a former US Army officer.
Such coverage is commonplace: More than half the nation's largest 500 companies buy such policies, which cover ransom payments and the fees of negotiation consultants, usually former intelligence or law enforcement operatives.
"Even in countries as large as Mexico, people feel like their sovereignty is put in the hands of law enforcement operatives from another country, and DEA agents call the shots," said John Walsh, who studies drug policy at the nonprofit Washington Office on Latin America.
The action comedy 2 Guns, in which Washington played a covert drug-enforcement operative, followed in 2013.
On screen, these tattooed hardmen may square up tit-to-tit, a stack-heeled Diesel in the honorary Bruce Willis vest that hasn't been washed since Die Hard, and The Rock in some sort of wired-up gilet that says: "I'm a law-enforcement operative who understands that sometimes rules have to be broken".
The operation seems to be the first time that American law enforcement and intelligence operatives have conducted a raid in a foreign country as part of the Bush administration's campaign against terrorism.
Today, the F.B.I. warned in a weekly notice to law enforcement agencies that operatives of Al Qaeda had obtained stolen passports from Saudi Arabia.
Spanberger's resume as a former law enforcement official and CIA operative appealed to a large swath of swing voters, and the 'D' next to her name was enough for many who want more aggressive oversight of Trump.
--A new initoative to work with Turkey on building law enforcement cases against PKK operatives in Europe.
Although all were regarded by American law enforcement as low-level operatives, they have been given harsh sentences ranging from 20 years to life.
