But the ending of the siege was even more surprising than the siege itself.
Gunmen diverted traffic away from the ministry in central Tripoli as they continued the siege through the day.
In 1627, France's Cardinal Richelieu began the siege of the Huguenot fortress at La Rochelle with royal troops.
As the siege at the Chabad House began, Samuel heard the commotion, locked the doors and hid in a room.
The ongoing saga of the siege of the PSN has resulted in news items practically every other day since the attacks started.
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In 1862, the siege of the Confederate city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, began when Union naval forces took up position off of the city.
The Scarlets responded by putting Leinster under serious pressure but Malcolm O'Kelly's big hit helped lift the siege as the ball was turned over.
In other assignments, Chance reported from Mumbai, India, where he covered the 2008 militant attacks on the city and the siege of the landmark Taj Majal Hotel.
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The Republic's members compare their stand with the siege of the Alamo, when the identity of Texas was forged by the annihilation of the Alamo's outnumbered, outgunned heroes.
"Residents are appealing for intervention to break the siege of the disaster-stricken city, which has no access to any of life's essentials including bread, water, baby formula or electricity, " the LCC said.
On April 19th 1993, when she was brand-new to her job, four federal agents were killed and 87 people incinerated in the siege of the Branch Davidians' headquarters outside Waco, in Texas.
But Mr. Romney's suggestion the Obama administration may have had political motives in failing to initially call the siege on the U.S. consulate a terrorist attack led to one of the sharpest exchanges of the debate.
His tenure at the Home Office saw the siege at the Libyan People's Bureau in London during which a policewoman was shot, the miners' strike and the forging of an extradition treaty with Spain despite the Gibraltar dispute.
Joe McMahon lifted the siege in the 52nd minute to cut Donegal's lead to four points but within a minute the game was as good as over when McFadden blasted to the net after the Tyrone defence had been ripped apart.
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"I have seen nothing to suggest that anything about April itself makes people violent, " Robert Blaskiewicz, who runs the blog Skeptical Humanities, said in a 2011 interview with CNN about the 20-year anniversary of the siege of the Waco compound.
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The siege in the prosperous province is one of the most serious recent examples of mass unrest in China, much of it due to local officials misappropriating farmland and selling it to property developers at an enormous profit that farmers never see.
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Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah describes the Intifada as "stronger than the siege, the starvation, the desperation and the drums of war that are being beaten all over the world by the tyrants and arrogant ones", in a speech broadcast on Lebanese Al-Manar Television.
He also covered the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in May 2002.
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The militant siege caught the world's attention as it ensnared citizens from several nations and dragged on for days.
The Waco siege and the Oklahoma City bombing fell on April 19, the actual anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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When American forces undertake big military operations, such as the recent siege around the Shia holy town of Najaf, it is he who calls many of the shots.
It conveys the strains, for both Iran and America, of dealing with the daily tumult of the Islamic revolution and the long siege of the American embassy in Tehran.
Yet it was only after the 1979 siege that the al-Saud began promoting radical Islam at home and abroad as a way of staving off challenges to their own legitimacy.
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He even made an apparent reference to the deaths of people -- what he called the "burning alive" of 80 men, women and children -- during the federal siege of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas in 1993.
Following the recent siege at the In Amenas gas plant in the Sahara, in which up to six Britons lost their lives, Mr Cameron discussed the threat of terrorism with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmalek Sellal in the capital Algiers.
And we also see the need to lift the Israeli siege of the Palestinian people, the need to open all the crossings, and the need to let building material and humanitarian material and all the necessities go into the Palestinian people.
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Polygamy is illegal in the US, but the authorities have reportedly been reluctant to confront the FLDS for fear of sparking a tragedy similar to the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, which led to the deaths of around 80 members.
The laboratory at Wetherby has dealt with cases as diverse as the bodies recovered from the Waco siege at the Branch Davidians compound in Texas in 1993, to the assassination of the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 and the disappearance of Huddersfield man Peter Falconio in Australia in July 2001.
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