Shortly before the Hizbullah raid carried away two Israeli soldiers, the Palestinian Hamas movement had mounted an equally daring raid into Israel from the Gaza Strip (another place from which Israel had completely withdrawn), killing two soldiers and nabbing another.
–On May 21, a homeowner shot by a Hallandale Beach, Florida, SWAT team during an early-morning May 8 drug raid passed away in the hospital.
Under President George W. Bush, immigration agents frequently conducted high-profile factory raids, leading away scores of unauthorized workers in handcuffs, often to face jail time for document fraud or identity theft before being deported.
In 1982, Israeli forces led by Mr. Sharon, then the defense minister, pushed into Lebanon in what was presented as "Operation Peace for Galilee," a brief raid to clear away the northern border.
The madam reacts furiously, perceiving the raid as taking away her livelihood.
He has also said it's a mistake to look at weed raids as taking away resources from another area.
Bratton and other law enforcement officials, while rhetorically embracing a rollback of mass incarceration, have used raids to sweep away large swaths of young public housing residents.
Three months ago, in a morning raid, French police towed away 11 luxury cars, including a Maserati, a Porsche Carrera, an Aston Martin and a Mercedes Maybach.
Just days after staging the biggest workplace raid ever, not far away in Mississippi, the agency promised there would be no raids or checkpoints to slow the evacuation of the Gulf Coast.
A close friend of the family said she was not told the reason for the raid as officers took away computers, papers and hard drives, some of which belonged to her.
