These mountains are where coalition forces carried out Operation Anaconda in March 2002 to rout Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters from remote valleys, one of the highest profile operations in the early years of the war.
Mr Vaz said the Met was "clearly struggling to cope with the demands" of a series of high-profile operations.
The high-profile operations have drawn accusations from Italian political parties, including the center-right party of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the far-right Northern League, that tax officials were showing off and targeting hardworking businesses.
However, Anonymous has performed a number of high-profile operations in recent months, taking down Isis-linked websites and Twitter accounts and releasing the names and personal information of around 1,000 alleged Ku Klux Klan members.
The bureau has botched some high-profile operations, like the deadly 1993 raid on the compound of the Branch Davidian cult near Waco, Tex., which prompted the N.R.A. to brand its agents "jackbooted thugs".
The two countries have worked in lock step on numerous high-profile operations, including the continuing investigation of the February murder of Jaime J. Zapata, an American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
Yates, 49, has led a series of high-profile operations, most notably the investigation into the Labour "cash for peerages" affair, into whether Labour figures broke the law in allegedly holding out the prospect of peerages and other honours in return for donations to the party, which would have breached the 1925 Honours Act.
Brian Paddick, once at the heart of the Metropolitan police during some of the most contentious and high-profile operations of recent years, is now helping to steer a radical new TV treatment of the force, directed by the Oscar-winning Danny Boyle.
MADRID — The arrests of two political leaders of the Spanish separatist group ETA this week— the latest in a series of high-profile operations against the outlawed organization — is raising cautious optimism in Spain that the 50-year-old violent struggle for Basque independence could be entering a new phase.
During his time in Lebanon, al-Wazir was responsible for coordinating high-profile operations.
