Abbas guard commander 'held'
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Israeli troops detain a top commander of the Palestinian presidential guard, known as Force 17, Palestinians say.
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Armed Palestinians seized an Israeli Arab producer for the CNN television network from a car in Gaza City on Monday after asking for him by name.
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A man described as a high-ranking Hamas operative was arrested last week as he videotaped the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and he then was held as a material witness in an unrelated case, authorities said.
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Israeli police Monday briefly  arrested a Palestinian presidential candidate as he campaigned  in disputed Jerusalem, in the latest incident to mar the run-up  to elections for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli troops seized a top Hamas militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinian security forces yesterday briefly arrested three leaders of a small militant faction responsible for an attack that wounded two Israeli soldiers, amid Israeli criticism that Palestinian leaders were not taking strong enough action to end violence.
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Spanish police on Friday detained the leader of the banned Basque separatist party Batasuna, the political wing of the armed separatist group ETA which three days ago called off a 14-month ceasefire.
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ISRAELI troops arrested a commander of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Nablus today, Palestinian security sources said.
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Israeli forces arrested the speaker of the Palestinian parliament at his house early Sunday, Palestinian officials said.
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A Palestinian who broke into the   British embassy's car park in Tel Aviv demanding asylum was   captured by Israeli police on Thursday after a six-hour   standoff in which he had threatened to shoot himself.
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Israel says it has arrested a Palestinian man suspected of involvement in the capture of missing soldier Gilad Shalit.
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JERUSALEM - The commander of Israeli forces in the West Bank was reprimanded yesterday following an investigation into allegations that troops used a Palestinian man as a human shield during an operation held in the West Bank city of Nablus. The army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, reprimanded Brigadier General Yair Golan and held up his advancement, the ...
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A candidate in January&#39;s Palestinian presidential election says he has been detained and beaten by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint.
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A PALESTINIAN presidential candidate was arrested by Israeli authorities for allegedly attacking a border guard at a roadblock near Jerusalem, his party said.
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Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a top  security official they accused of corruption and held him for  several hours in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a fresh  challenge to President Yasser Arafat amid a wave of unrest.
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US authorities in Iraq have arrested a man chosen to lead Iraq&#39;s National Guard in one of the country&#39;s most troubled and violent provinces.
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Palestinian gunmen freed a top security  official on Thursday hours after abducting him in the Gaza  Strip in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule  amid a wave of unrest, witnesses said.