Yet the report that nearly 100 workers were safe could indicate a breakthrough in the confrontation that began when the militants seized the plant early Wednesday.
On top of this, a significant segment of the Iraqi armed forces had been devastated in the confrontation with coalition forces that had ended only a month before.
Most of the traveller residents are not involved in the confrontation but the protesters are still defiant and say they are determined to stay for as long as it takes.
Police said Ryan Harrison, from Woking, was with a friend at Guildford station at 23:40 GMT on Saturday when he became involved in the confrontation which involved a number of other men.
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Gayle said there was no plan to specifically attack Johnson for his part in the confrontation with Benn, although it looked that way, with the Australia paceman removed from the attack after four overs cost 34 runs.
That might have been most apparent Sunday when receiver and captain Santonio Holmes got benched late in the fourth quarter after getting in a heated confrontation with a teammate in the offensive huddle.
Despite the history of confrontation in the Portadown area, the knock-on effect elsewhere has only been felt in more recent years.
In Jordan, the Khaliji boom has more or less compensated for the 43% fall in European tourism during the confrontation with Iraq last February.
What was missing in the budget ceiling confrontation was debate over whether there should even be in place such a straight jacket.
There was another problem: by 2010, the statute of limitations had long since expired on any crimes that Amy might be charged with in relation to the confrontation at Dinger Ford.
"Some may argue that the stakes in this confrontation are so high we can't afford the risk that we might lose, " Conyers said.
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But the figures aren't exactly a perfect fit for either side in the fatal-confrontation story.
They rarely have official press passes - though, in the heat of confrontation, these sometimes offer little protection against over-zealous security forces.
The parcels were posted in March 2011 in the aftermath of a confrontation between Mr Lennon and Rangers' manager Ally McCoist during an Old Firm game.
In these elections the confrontation revealed dramatic divide between Georgians.
The drivers tried to downplay the confrontation after arriving in the desert this week, but it's been hard to avoid, with video of the scrap-and-dash being shown all over in promos for the race and replays.
In a society which shuns confrontation except in the heat of the moment, this is an unprecedented step taken in desperation.
Some Sadr supporters are also involved in delicate negotiations with American officials to avoid a head-on confrontation in the sprawling slum of Sadr City.
The confrontation has been brewing for a while, but it was yesterday when things started to get real all up in this piece: The competing parties escalated their confrontation with full-page ads in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.
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The US was uninterested in seizing the ship because it was uninterested in provoking a confrontation with Teheran, which it seeks to engage.
In fact, the seminal moment in the book involves (coincidentally enough) another confrontation with McChrystal and the top military brass during the run-up to the president's fateful decision to approve a troop surge in Afghanistan.
How you handle confrontation in the office may be as important as networking and technical skills.
Governments are used to insisting that in any confrontation, the unelected house must bend to the will of the elected one.
Two guards were struck in the head during the confrontation but neither was seriously hurt and both have since returned to duty.
Details surrounding Mr Wutty's death are unclear but he was shot dead in a confrontation with the police while travelling in the south-west of the country.
Yet the hard truth, for Georgians and others, is that pleas for military backing from the West in any confrontation with Russia are unlikely to be heeded.
The masquerader apparently was undeterred by the confrontation in July, when a protester tried to hit Murdoch with a cream pie after he testified about News Corp. phone-hacking scandals.
The Center for Security Policy on Monday joined the Institut pour la Defense de la Democratie in co-hosting a day-long international conference on the topic of "Les Democraties Face au Defi Islamiste" (Democracies in the Face of Islamist Confrontation).
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But, in turn, Mr Livingstone says that he is trying to do everything he can "to avoid my party finding itself in a confrontation with the wishes of the great majority of London voters" - which opinion polls suggest back him.
ATHENS, Greece (CNN) -- Ian Thorpe and world record holder Pieter van den Hoogenband are set for a classic confrontation in the 100 meters freestyle final on Wednesday with the Australian seeking to pull off an unprecedented 100m, 200m and 400m Olympic treble.
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