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As a naval commander he is believed to have been responsible for seizing a number of Westerners, mostly sailors whose yachts had strayed off course in the Gulf of Siam, who eventually landed up in S-21.

Islamist militants have attacked and occupied a gas facility in the east of Algeria, seizing a number of foreign hostages.

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The police seized a number of bombs, explosive materials, a bomb-making manual and ammunition, General Aliyus said.

In September, 2014, Italian authorities seized a number of Rotenberg's properties in Italy: among them, three villas on the island of Sardinia, one in the city of Tarquinia, and a luxury hotel in Rome.

In 1500, on the initiative of Lithuanian defectors, Ivan's armies seized a number of important border towns, thus beginning a war that ended somewhat inconclusively in 1503 with a truce that extended Ivan's border considerably to the west.

Brigades affiliated with the Free Syrian Army had seized a number of towns south of Sanamayn, and this month took control of a military base near Dara'a, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began more than two years ago.

Appearing to be better armed than ever before, and showing greater tactical coördination amongst themselves, the rebels seized a number of military bases and brought the war closer to central Damascus, effectively surrounding it on three sides.

Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday he is against US intervention in neighboring Iraq, where Islamic extremists and Sunni militants opposed to Tehran have seized a number of towns and cities, the official IRNA news agency reported.

However, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) went to the US supreme court last year to seize a number of the tapes they believed contained evidence concerning one of the most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland Troubles – the kidnapping, killing and secret burial of Jean McConville.

Suthep himself has rejected any form of negotiation or dialogue until the so-called "Thaksin regime" has been ousted, and on Friday vowed to cut telecommunications and seize a number of government ministries, police headquarters and a zoo over the weekend.

Antigovernment fighters who are not part of the Free Syrian Army, many of them from extremist brigades that are linked to Al Qaeda, have recently seized a number of villages in the mountains on the eastern side of Mr. Assad's home province, Latakia.

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