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The NYT gets a nice detail: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif fired Musharraf as he was flying back to the country and forbade his plane to land, as the plane ran low on fuel, the army commandeered first the air control tower and then the country.
The general says his plane had only seven minutes of fuel left when the military commandeered the control tower and cleared the commercial airliner to land.
The five hijackers that commandeered an Indian Airlines jet on Friday are reportedly demanding the release of Kashmiri rebels imprisoned by India.
This paper exercise involved a scenario in which a group of terrorists commandeered a Learjet on the ground in Atlanta, loaded it with explosives, and flew it toward a target in Washington, D.
It was sixth-century barbarians who commandeered the massive round brick pile as a fortress, using ancient statues as missiles to hurl on the heads of their enemies below.
The ships were commandeered to carry troops or become floating hospitals, and the waters around the islands were infested with German submarines.
One of these is the yellow clapboard Longfellow House, which was commandeered by Washington as his headquarters during the siege of Boston (see page 16).
The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades, they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.
Coincident with Portugal's action Italy commandeered thirty-four German ships lying in Italian ports, and several others in her territorial waters.
Then, vexed at his own weakness, he turned away and began to report on the position of affairs.
Everything precious and valuable had been removed to Bogucharovo.
Seventy quarters of grain had also been carted away.
The hay and the spring corn, of which Alpatych said there had been a remarkable crop that year, had been commandeered by the troops and mown down while still green.
The peasants were ruined; some of them too had gone to Bogucharovo, only a few remained.
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