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Israel confiscated all land owned by the British government, mostly desert and mountains, after the 1948 War of Independence . Property owned by Arab refugees, who either fled war zones or were forced from their homes by the Israeli army (another long-standing controversy), was also taken over by individual Jews or confiscated by the government.
Arafat pointed out that his police had arrested numerous terrorist suspects and confiscated weapons.
Some 20,000 chests of opium were confiscated from British merchants in Guangzhou (Canton).
The equipment confiscated by customs officials seems to match that used by others linked to bin Laden.
Arlington National Cemetery, "the nation's most hallowed military burial ground ," was born in an act of theft: The U.S. government confiscated it in 1861 from Gen.