The administration has dismissed the criticism, and officials say a series of recent operations in which senior Qaeda operatives have been captured or killed underscored the progress they have made in disrupting the terror network's operations.
The SBS also operates on land, with recent operations in the mountains of landlocked Afghanistan and in the deserts of Iraq.
But within months, facing heavy violence and evidence of sectarian activities by the Iraqi Army, American commanders shelved plans to turn over full operational control of the Fifth Division to the Iraqi government on Oct. 1. "Recent operations conducted by the Fifth Iraqi Army seem to be focused strictly on the Sunnis," said Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon, division commander for northern Iraq.
But US forces have conducted more recent operations in Libya.
Both attacks may have been retaliations for recent operations against terrorism suspects.
It points to numerous arrests of alleged gang members, kidnappers and smugglers during recent operations.
Recent operations by the police and government security forces against Taliban militants have further heightened tensions.
Many were asking each other about their grandchildren and how they were recovering from their recent operations.
In the recent operations, some of the women in Boko Haram captivity fell victim to the Nigerian military.
Despite recent operations on both hips, Claire Salant, 82, of Old Bethpage on Long Island, sashayed and spun to klezmer for almost an hour on the first evening.
Four recent operations for abdominal cancer have left him gaunt, but Zaramella still has plump, mobile hands and speaks in a mellow baritone.
