In addition, Russia argued that it faced new threats on its southern borders: the possibility of missile launches from Iran and the expansion of Islamist terrorism, which required - in the perspective of Russia - Russian military presence in Georgia and Armenia.
Tony Abbott is proposing a huge expansion of anti-terrorism laws in response to intelligence advice about a future threat from returning jihadi fighters.
On 29 December Jasiewicz was visited at home by officers from the Metropolitan police's counter-terrorism command – proof, she says, of an expansion of the definition of terrorism to include non-violent crimes against property.
As a July NATO summit meeting in Warsaw approaches, Germany, Europe's largest economy, is now key to how the alliance will face the twin perils that have transformed the strategic situation in Europe: a more menacing Russia and the Islamic State's expansion beyond individual acts of terrorism like executions to seizing territory.
The so-called special registration program is an expansion of an anti-terrorism directive issued this summer that subjects citizens of countries considered a high risk for terrorist activity to fingerprinting and additional scrutiny when they enter and leave the United States.
In Mr. Obama's first term, critics assailed his expansion of the war against terrorism, including the expanded use of drones.
With Republicans accusing him of being unpatriotic, Senator Tom Daschle, the majority leader, renewed his questions today about the administration's expansion of the war on terrorism and called on President Bush to keep Congress better informed.
In the first major expansion of the war on terrorism, American and Philippine military officers in Manila began preparing joint operations today against a Muslim extremist group linked to Al Qaeda in the southern Philippines.
These questions, like the companion questions about Halliburton's dealings with Iraq on Mr. Cheney's watch, are not ancient history but will gain in relevance in direct proportion to the expansion of the war on terrorism and the decline of the Dow.
