In September, the Italian media reported that ISIS fighters were preparing an operation to recapture the dam.
The Royal Navy was also preparing an operation in the region, a staggered campaign intended to blockade, isolate and subsequently capture both Île de France and Île Bonaparte, eliminating the final French territories and bases east of Africa.
With an unknown number of gunmen holed up in a house across the street from the consulate, special forces units prepared an operation to clear the attackers, police spokesman Shir Jan Durani said.
Meanwhile, more than a dozen workers were sent to Osaka to prepare an operations center to be expanded if the number of blackouts increased in Tokyo, where 70 percent of the company's employees commute by train.
When one of them is lining up a potential deal, it is almost always because his or a foreign unit is preparing a sting operation, he adds.
NATO and Afghan forces are preparing a major operation in the south intended to oust the Taliban insurgents from their stronghold in the town of Marja, in Helmand Province.
American forces, led by the marines, are preparing a big operation to clear the area.Unusually, NATO has made no secret of its plans and for some time has been loudly publicising "Operation Mushtarak" (or "togetherness" in Pushtun).
The men, described by prosecutors as "cold-eyed fanatics", were allegedly in the final phase of preparing a terrorist operation simultaneously to detonate devices using hydrogen peroxide similar to those used by the London bombers in July 2005.
As Mr. Kerry kept his own counsel, his entire campaign was on high alert over the holiday weekend, preparing a precision operation that was being secretly planned down to the last press release and camera angle.
Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, accused Mr Netanyahu of "preparing a ground operation which could bring a huge massacre in Gaza".
In the video of Doku Umarov posted last Friday, the rebel leader is flanked by two men, one of whom the rebel leader claims is preparing a "special operation".
