In Athens, officials requested security assistance from NATO for the 2004 Summer Games, which are just months away.
García's caddie, Glen Murray, told US media that, three holes earlier, he had requested security assistance because of the level of crowd intimidation.
A month later it requested security assistance from Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries and declared a three-month state of emergency.
American officials, including Mr. Brennan and Gerald M. Feierstein, the American ambassador to Yemen, say the administration will consider Yemen's requests for security assistance case by case once Yemen submits a long-term strategic plan for how it plans to address threats from Al Qaeda.
"Were the Iraqi government to come forward and make a request for some continued security assistance, we would be prepared to look at it".
When the host country ignores requests for high-level security assistance, as Algeria did last year, the United Nations should be prepared to suspend its programs or to withdraw altogether.
On Monday, the United States and international partners announced in Vienna that they are prepared to provide humanitarian, economic and security assistance if requested, including weapons, and to support a request by the Libyan unity government for an exception to a U.N. embargo that was put in place in 2011 as the country faced an internal war after the fall of strongman Moammar Gaddafi.
He declined to comment on the security assistance force request that the Afghan authorities investigate accusations of Afghan Local Police torture.
Immediately after the Argentine coup, on Kissinger's recommendations, the U.S. Congress approved a request for fifty million dollars in security assistance to the junta; this was topped off by another thirty million before the end of the year.
The State Department offers only security assistance and, if requested, general briefings on major issues of interest and U.S. policy.
United States security assistance to Mexico is decreasing.
