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The escalating violence in the Russian province of Dagestan--where late last week Islamic militants from across the Chechen border seized several villages and declared Dagestan an independent Islamic state--was described by the St. Petersburg Times as "the other crisis."
News that an Algerian man named Ahmed Ressam was seized at the Canadian border because he was carrying bomb-making materials is on all three fronts.
The most plausible explanation that emerged was that one of the pilots had gone berserk, seized the controls, and flown the aircraft into the sea.
Upon finishing this book, I was seized by a deep feeling of stuckness.
In 1926, Pilsudski engineered a military coup and seized control under the Sanacja, or senate, government that would rule until the start of World War II.