provide security

Instead of looking for a multi-year deal that could provide security at the uncertain position, Dobbins signed a one-year contract with the Chargers.

If they do, the leaders in Egypt and other Sunni Arab nations, most notably Saudi Arabia, might step up and offer to rebuild Gaza and provide security along its borders, as they have sometimes offered to do in a postwar settlement.

Individually, the military top brass at the meeting told the prime minister that soldiers could not shoot at civilians - but they could provide security back-up to police, sources told the BBC.

The French government is using about 20,000 soldiers and more than 40,000 police officers to provide security for the Games.

Longtime tribal warfare in Enga province has not relented despite the disaster, meaning that soldiers have had to provide security for the aid convoys heading toward Yambali.