Word: gunpoint
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...while, it seemed as if there were as many potential John Doe No. 2s as clowns tumbling out of a circus car. An Australian tourist in Ontario was dragged from his car at gunpoint and questioned for four hours by authorities; a hitchhiker was detained in Ohio; a man driving through Georgia in a BMW with Oklahoma plates was stopped by a local sheriff's deputy. The most colorful detainees, Gary Allen Land and Robert Jacks -- two drifters whose travels mysteriously paralleled McVeigh's in the days before the bombing -- were arrested on Tuesday in Carthage, Missouri, and released...
...international monitoring organization, accused Russian troops of assaulting Chechen civilians and torturing prisoners. Chechen officials had previously denied charges of Russian atrocities, but Chechen citizens told of looting and violent treatment at the hands of Russian troops. Human Rights Watch researchers checking out the allegations were themselves held at gunpoint by Russian soldiers, who confiscated their film and tapes. Russia's human rights commissioner, who is investigating the charges, has warned soldiers not to, "mete out mob law or even law and order...
...story involves Mr. Baker abducting thefemale student at gunpoint and taking her to asecluded place off Route 23 in Ann Arbor,"Stejskal said in the affidavit. "He tells her todisrobe, to take a toolbox from his car and thenuses the tools to torture...
...struck with Carter really left them in charge of the streets, free to terrorize the populace as usual. The misconception was finally shattered last week after U.S. troops raided the headquarters of the paramilitary FRAPH organization. In the process, soldiers surrounded a police vehicle, hauled the officers out at gunpoint, held them down and handcuffed them...
...Serbs did not immediately retaliate by killing peacekeeping troops, as NATO had feared, but at least two were wounded -- and one subsequently died -- in the continued fighting. Serbs abducted some blue helmets at gunpoint and held hostage more than 200 U.N. soldiers and civilians. They surrounded several artillery depots around Sarajevo and on Saturday reportedly seized heavy weapons sequestered by peacekeepers...