Other hedge funds held their ground, having set up positions designed to profit from a downgrade well in advance.
Other hedge funds held their ground, having set up positions intended to profit from a downgrade well in advance.
The Lebanese government has also told the United Nations peacekeepers not to set up positions at what had been border crossing points.
SERGEANT, ANONYMOUS Paratrooper, 2002, Nablus We took over a central house, set up positions, and one of the sharpshooters identified a man on a roof, two roofs away, I think he was between 50 and 70 metres away, not armed.
By late Tuesday, Iraqi troops had pushed deep into the district and set up positions around hospitals and police stations, which the Iraqi government was seeking to bring under its control.
Residents said soldiers had taken over schools and set up positions in buildings, and were surrounding Nablus's Old City, a warren of alleys and tightly packed dwellings that has served as a stronghold of local armed groups.
American forces have occupied former bases of the Taliban in districts surrounding Kandahar, and set up positions in the same buildings, including the Taliban's main headquarters and courthouse in Sayedan where they held trials under Islamic law, or Shariah.
Activists said that antigovernment fighters had tried to put out the fire, but that it was difficult because of government snipers in the area, who activists have said set up positions in the city's 13th-century citadel, which overlooks the souk.
Police set up positions along the street as some in the crowd threw rocks and bottles, CBS Los Angeles reported.
