The foreign secretary, William Hague, told the committee that Saudi forces were sent into Bahrain last year "to guard installations but not to take part in dealing with unrest in Bahrain so they did not fall foul [of the export guidelines]".
However, it has to be considered that faults cannot be fully eliminated in spite of the utilities' many efforts to prevent them by adequate tree trimming, insulation washing, adding animal guards, installation of line arresters, etc.
Damascus was reported to be calm after the attack, with the riot police and other forces guarding installations like the state television building.
In a sign of Syria's widening divisions, Mr. Assad's opponents quickly accused the government of playing a part in the deadly attack on its own heavily guarded installations, though they offered no proof for that claim.
"You can't guard every installation across the world," said Bob Whiteside, "just because of these fanatics.
Even more shocking, they were attacked on a heavily guarded military installation within the United States where they surely must have felt secure.
A senior United States military official said today that creating a private security force to guard some installations in Iraq made sense for the same reason that private security forces were used to guard American installations like the Smithsonian Institution and power plants.
Local officials also moved on Monday to try to assuage the residents of Tripoli, who have complained about the dozens of armed militias that continue to patrol the streets and guard government installations.
But the fleet's press service only told a Russian news agency Ria-Novosti it would help guard fleet installations.
Police checkpoints are up all over the country, there are tanks stationed in the centre of the capital Manama, a curfew from midnight until early morning and more than 1,000 troops and police from neighbouring Arab Gulf states helping to guard vital installations.
Some Border police personnel were attached to the Military Governor's office, under 'Abd-al-'Azim al-Saharti, to guard public installations in the Gaza strip.
