Oman has served as a base for American Special Operations Forces and B-1 bombers in the war in Afghanistan.
The 230-foot vessel was destined for Sudan, a country that has served as a base for terrorist groups, they added.
The knowledge gained from comparative observational studies has served as a base for experimental interventions in animal models to induce or ameliorate scar.
For decades the poor neighbourhood of Colonia Libertad, rammed up against the border fence, has served as a base for illicit crossings.
American officials have said that Pankisi has served as a base for dozens of Islamic militants, as well as hundreds of Chechen fighters intermingled with some 4,000 Chechen refugees who fled Russia's second war in Chechnya in 1999.
All the troops are expected to be withdrawn by Wednesday from Kindu, a city 200 miles from the border that has served as a base both for Rwandan Army troops and rebels from the Congolese Rally for Democracy.
The Mubaraks owned a five-story townhouse on 28 Wilton Place in the upscale Knightsbridge district of London, which has served as a base for Mrs. Mubarak and a home for Gamal Mubarak when he was working in London as an investment banker.
When his education was put on hold, he started running full time, joining a training camp in nearby Nyahururu, which, at nearly eight thousand feet, is the country's highest town, and has served as a base for top athletes ever since Kenya emerged as a distance-running superpower, more than forty years ago.
People familiar with the Muslim community here — numbering about 40,000 people, including the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland — say one reason may be that the community is ethnically diffuse, unlike Britain, where more than two-thirds of the 1.5 million Muslims have family origins in Pakistan, which has served as a base for many of the plots discovered in Britain.
'For me, this is when Wasdale looks its best,' says Adam Naylor, manager of the Wasdale Head Inn, the historic hostelry which has served as a base for walkers for more than 150 years.
