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...March deportation order empowered the INS to detain the sheik, who had been on parole ever since. One reason for revoking parole is suspicion that the suspect might flee. Abdel Rahman obligingly provided grounds for such suspicion by leaving his apartment in Jersey City Wednesday night and leading federal agents who had been watching him on a car chase before holing up in the Brooklyn mosque...
After a 20-hour standoff, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the radical Muslim cleric who federal authorities believe is connected to terrorists, left a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and surrendered peaceably to immigration authorities. The Justice Department decided to detain Abdel Rahman after he tried to elude surveillance by federal agents...
...panel of experts reports the crimes against humanity in all their enormity and the Security Council establishes a proper tribunal, the criminals could well remain unfettered in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. Short of a military invasion from the West, there is no obvious way to find and detain them...
...summer of 1492, Cabezon witnesses the horrific mass-expulsion of the Jews-their lives and possessions are now prey to roadside thieves as they march to the southern ports. Finding his wife and child in Puerto de Santa Maria as they prepare to embark, and unable to detain them, Cabezon promises to make his fortune and find them in Flanders. He then takes the road to Palos in search of a man he has heard of named Columbus. The novel closes, "We left port by way of the Saltes River, half an hour before sunup, on Friday, the third...
Though there was no evidence of a single case of Japanese-American espionage throughout the war, FBI agents on the afternoon of Dec. 7 began to detain suspected "subversives." They swooped down on a Los Angeles baseball field, for example, to apprehend members of a team called the L.A. Nippons. Within two months, 2,192 "suspects" had been jailed. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to protect citizens against arbitrary arrest, but a U.S. law of 1924 had virtually forbidden Japanese immigration, so most of the arrested suspects were classified as "enemy aliens...