The desert cities of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu quickly fell to them.

When they took over the May 28 Brigade base, they took heavy equipment, most notably tanks.

Renegade soldiers have announced that they are seizing power in Mali, after taking over the state television building and presidential palace.

They share a feeling of being dispossessed by foreigners, of losing their sense of national, social, or religious belonging.

But we receive very little for our hard work, because by the time our produce reaches the market, middlemen have taken the profit.

(In particular, S believes that the message was not replayed by some attacker who captured it at some time in the past.

The remaining three, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania, Idriss Déby of Chad, and Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, grabbed power in coups, some of them violent.

With respect to the human rights situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the secessionists who had seized the territories were committing acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Georgians.

The Koreans, still enraged at Japan for almost a half century of colonization, took the Dokdo islands without worrying about the move s legality.

Residents still living there remain under threat of forced eviction by powerful landlords who have illegally appropriated land at below market rates since 2003.

Crusades The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II, with the stated goal of regaining control of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, who had captured them from the Byzantines in 638.

For most Westerners and many Russians, his finest hour came on August 19th that year, when he stood on a tank outside the Russian parliament and defied the hardliners who had seized power.

During the Jasmine crackdown in February this year, Chen's house was raided by a group of men who took away his computer, television, camera, books and documents and cut off his power and telephone line.

However, concern that the Syrian government could intensify 160 its use of chemical weapons against rebel held areas, or that rebels could initiate attacks or respond with captured chemical weapons, raises questions about the pattern s durability and the international community s reaction.

Might Krenz and the Communist reformers who had seized power just weeks earlier have been able to channel popular unrest, or even defuse it? Instead of a unified Germany today, could there still be two Germanys, East and West?

However, concern that the Syrian government could intensify its use of chemical weapons against rebel held areas, or that rebels could initiate attacks or respond with captured chemical weapons, raises questions about the pattern s durability and the international community s reaction.