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The London Observer reported Sunday that Malaysia had "carried out a mass poisoning of defenceless refugees and migrant workers in detention camps" to "subdue them before repatriation."
One group of tribals would subdue the guards, enter Tarnak Farms stealthily, grab Bin Ladin, take him to a desert site outside Kandahar, and turn him over to a second group.
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were determined to subdue Ireland, and sent in massive military expeditions.
When the news reached London, Henry VIII saw his chance to subdue Scotland again and negotiated a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward.
An article warns that Slobodan Milosevic might be massing troops to brutally subdue Montenegro, the democratic Yugoslavian republic struggling to separate itself from Serbia.