Then another court impounded his passport before releasing him on bail in connection with yet more charges, this time for harbouring army deserters.
Former supporters from all over the country, including the head of the army, Ishiaya Bamaiyi, and two former military rulers, Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida (who is close to General Abubakar), are saying that it is time for the army to leave politics.
News of his detention comes at a sensitive time for the army, when morale in its ranks is at a historical ebb after the May 2 night raid by United States commandos that killed Osama bin Laden, and an attack on Pakistan's largest naval base by militants who appear to have had inside assistance.
The usual practice at the time for appointing army chaplains was for each regiment to elect their own chaplain, and a regiment from Pennsylvania had elected a Jewish cantor, Michael Mitchell Allen for the position.
Perhaps it is time for the silent army of rational thinkers to stand up for the science.
Their efforts delayed the troops sufficiently to allow time for the Belgian army to arrive on the left bank of the Meuse.
Sweeney Investigates 9.50pm, BBC2 It was a black time for the British army when six members of the Royal Military Police were murdered by an Iraqi mob in June 2003.
Yet the eleventh-century Portuguese alchemist credited with inventing vanilla was actually seeking a rum-raisin elixir, and it was a French diplomat serving in Persia who first bottled it — just in time for the Russian Army to buy up his entire stock for its thirst-ravaged troops in the Crimean War.
Foster said the extra water would be for 60 days or so – time for the US army corps of engineers to blast and clear the series of rock pinnacles down river, near the town of Thebes, that threaten barges during this time of low water.
The brigade, with the 21st in the center, successfully held off Confederate advances from 7 to, buying critical time for the Union army.
