Nevertheless, it seems even more the case to me, that Occupy – in looking to besiege the stock exchange – has chosen the wrong target.
They were therefore able to besiege and blockade each other with great cruelty in 1993-94, when those two groups were fighting each other, as well as the Serbs.
"Today they besiege the religious police," howled one website commentator.
He is to visit America in July for talks with George Bush.The ruling centre-left governments of Spain and Italy both did badly in local elections.Dug inThe Lebanese army continued to besiege a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Tripoli, in the north of the country, where members of Fatah al-Islam, a group proclaiming allegiance to al-Qaeda, refused to surrender.
The rebel response has been to besiege the strategically important town of Kidal.
BACK in 1994, a Yemeni army officer named Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi was helping to besiege the southern port of Aden in a civil war, the conclusion of which would temporarily unite the fissiparous nation.
Yet, by order of Israel's minister of internal security, his offices in Jerusalem were raided, and then shut down, by the police.Israel says its tanks and troops will continue to besiege Mr Arafat's last intact building until the Palestinian leader hands over several militants who, Israel now claims, are among the 200-odd guards and officials cooped up with him.
When pro-democracy demonstrations broke out after a coup in 1976, Mr Samak, in full spate on an army radio station, called the protesters communists and whipped up mobs to besiege Thammasat University, the centre of unrest.
As international tensions heightened during the summer of 1914, Germany made plans to besiege France by crossing Luxembourg and Belgium, despite their neutrality.
In 415, however, the Athenians returned to besiege Syracuse with a larger army.
This situation led to political difficulties with William II, prince of Orange, who in 1650 planned to besiege the city.
