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to captured

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To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.

  • To capture an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal

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On 4 April, the Bosnian Croat TO captured Gornji Malovan.

The Potawatomis, who were partial to wild rice, used to feed it to captured enemies before executing time.

The next day, the Department of Defense listed his whereabouts as unknown; that changed to "captured" on 3 July 2009.

The military, he said, is under no obligation to provide any more information with respect to captured combatants.

"Condoning torture opens the door for our enemies to do the same to captured American troops in the future".

The prosecutors were responding to court papers filed by the defense that requested a broad variety of government documents and access to captured Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners.

Photo: Calling it "a way to deliver justice" to captured terrorists, President Bush yesterday signed a bill on interrogating and trying suspects.

The Bush administration has said that the conventions do not apply to captured members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban held at Guantánamo Bay and in Afghanistan.

During the Vietnam war, the North Vietnamese had refused to extend the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captured American pilots.

The authors explain how the contents of cellphones belonging to captured terrorists are cloned in seconds, with computers scanning the numbers to match those of other known terrorists.

His trial has been delayed indefinitely as an appeals court weighs whether Mr. Moussaoui should be allowed to have access to captured Qaeda witnesses who might help prove his innocence.

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