The ground operation began after eight days of intensive attacks by Israeli air and naval forces on Hamas security installations, weapons stores and symbols of government in the Palestinian enclave.
Classified "human intelligence directives" issued in the name of Clinton or her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, instruct officials to gather information on military installations, weapons markings, vehicle details of political leaders as well as iris scans, fingerprints and DNA.
This treaty also restricts the use of the Moon to peaceful purposes, explicitly banning military installations and weapons of mass destruction.
The vision of a quick, clean strike at a remote desert installation for making weapons of mass destruction is seductive.
The Department of Energy has said it intends to begin shipping the plutonium from its Rocky Flats weapons installation in Colorado to the Savannah River Site on Saturday.
In his diaries, Helmut Schmidt, the then (West) German chancellor, said that the debate over American demands for the installation of nuclear weapons in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s came close to threatening democracy on the continent.
In Israel, Mr. Yaari, the television news analyst, said he had seen video and other reports of activity by Jaba el Nusra, an Islamist rebel group, near the "fences" of Sfira, which he described as a chemical weapons installation southeast of Aleppo, Syria.
On Friday, Governor Hodges sent state police to the government's Savannah River Site weapons installation near the Georgia state line to stop any vehicles carrying the radioactive material, which is to be brought in from the closed Rocky Flats weapons plant in Colorado.
About 1,800 airstrikes were directed against the Iraqi government and 800 at suspected hiding places and installations for illicit weapons, including surface-to-surface missiles.
Proponents, mainly Republicans, argue that low-yield warheads could be used to incinerate chemical or biological weapons installations without scattering deadly agents into the atmosphere.
