Sentence examples for interdiction operations from inspiring English sources

Three of the five joint interdiction operations during Anvil included deadly shootings.

American officials said air interdiction operations could begin in Colombia as early as this fall and would likely be expanded to Peru later.

Also in 2006 the United States increased its military aid to Guatemala for drug interdiction operations, which included destroying clandestine airstrips in the Petén and eradicating the cultivation of poppies throughout the country.

The initiatives come amid a surge in successful interdictions in Honduras since May — but also as American officials have been forced to defend their new tactics after a commando-style team of D.E.A. agents participated in at least three lethal interdiction operations alongside a squad of Honduran police officers.

But unlike Mr. Tenet, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has expressed strong support for resuming the air interdiction operations through the State Department, and he has repeatedly inquired about the progress of the department's work on the program, officials said.

In recent years, the Obama administration has spent tens of millions of dollars supporting "interdiction" operations in Pakistan, where a death sentence can be handed down to anyone caught possessing more than a kilogram of narcotics, and drug offenders are tried in farcical proceedings which make a mockery of justice.

The interdiction operation involved an American surveillance plane, operated by the Central Intelligence Agency with a contract crew, and a Peruvian Air Force fighter.

They're also involved in the Haitian Migrant Interdiction Operation which came into being in 1981.

American officials say there is evidence of increased drug-related air traffic in Colombia since the interdiction operation was suspended, but they have only limited information about the volume of drug flights out of Peru.

Between 1991 and 1995 the wing deployed to Panama as part of Operation Coronet Nighthawk, a drug interdiction operation.

Meanwhile, 18 B-25s of the 321st Bomb Group escorted by 32 P-38s of the 82nd Fighter Group set out on a maritime interdiction operation.