Gaddafi's initial refusal to hand over the two Libyan suspects to Scottish jurisdiction resulted in a protracted period of negotiations and UN sanctions, finally ending in 1999 with their surrender and trial.
The Nigerians, though, seemed to accept their fate half-heartedly — and in their meek surrender likely condemned their coach, Shaibu Amodu, to the same thing that has happened to him before.
The treason of the intellectuals begins, in most cases, not with the fanciful image of them as secret authors or puppeteers but in their abject surrender to power and its lures.
Ultimately, starvation and defeat in battles forced their surrender.
One account, in Tuesday's editions of the The Guardian newspaper in Britain, quoted an alliance commander as saying that "some 200" of the volunteers were killed after they had murdered alliance representatives sent in to demand their surrender.
In 1942 the Allies launched Operation Torch with landings in Northwest Africa, and finally encircled Axis forces in northern Tunisia, forcing their surrender.
And so, 40 years after their surrender in the war they had started, the Germans should face their crimes and their own destruction as honestly as they could.
Steven R. Schlesinger, a lawyer for Mr. Uhl, said he "accepted their surrender peacefully," in the courtroom of Justice Roy S. Mahon of State Supreme Court in Mineola, who had signed a temporary restraining order prohibiting water district officials from certifying the vote.
When two of the assailants raise a white flag and Ardalan Khasrawi, who also appeared in Peshmerga, approaches to accept their surrender, he finds another trap.
As a result, the Bulgarian defensive line did not receive adequate troop reinforcements and was quickly overrun by the Germans, who then outflanked the Greek forces in the Albanian borders, forcing their surrender.
