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WASHINGTON — The United States is laying the groundwork for operations to kill or capture militants implicated in the deadly attack on a diplomatic mission in Libya, senior military and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday, as the weak Libyan government appears unable to arrest or even question fighters involved in the assault.

President Obama has vowed to bring the killers to justice, and the United States is now laying the groundwork for possible operations to kill or capture militants implicated in the attack.

"In today's environment, basically what you want to have is the groundwork for intelligence operations in any country which you deem to be a national security threat," he said.

Meanwhile officials in Washington DC are laying the groundwork for military operations.

The strategy is that if there is no evidence of terrorism, then the government must go out there and create it through community outreach meetings that set the groundwork for sting operations.

The World Food Program is starting almost from scratch as it lays the groundwork for the operation in Zimbabwe.

Yet it seems equally unlikely that ISIS wouldn't be recruiting operatives in Bangladesh, if only to lay the groundwork for a future operation.

The attacks come as US military officials said they are expanding the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, including laying the groundwork for an Iraqi operation to take back Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, from IS.  .

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The level of technical and personal detail demanded about the UN top team's communication systems could be seen as laying the groundwork for surveillance or hacking operations.

Laying the groundwork for a possible military operation soon, Mr. Bush said the United States would insist on short deadlines.