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  • While I slept in the safe-house, I was shown a view outside and spied two soldiers approaching under the cover of darkness.

    Permanent Death, Episode 2: From Here to the Hearafter Ben Abraham 2009

  • I hopped into a nearby UNIMOG (a vehicle that looks like the love child of a tank and a dune buggy) and continued on my journey east through the dense jungle, spying and capturing a safe-house just off the main road.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • As I approached, I noticed a fellow walking away from the jeep, through the long grass towards a group of soldiers guarding the safe-house.

    Permanent Death, Episode 2: From Here to the Hearafter Ben Abraham 2009

  • He even covered my retreat as I got in a boat and puttered downstream to collapse on the camp bed of the nearest safe-house.

    Permanent Death, Episode 3 - An Illustrated Guide To Explosions. Ben Abraham 2009

  • As I approached, I noticed a fellow walking away from the jeep, through the long grass towards a group of soldiers guarding the safe-house.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • While I slept in the safe-house, I was shown a view outside and spied two soldiers approaching under the cover of darkness.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • Or let us consider the perfidious Franco-British plan that enabled war criminal Haj Amin al Husseini to evade indictment before a Nuremberg tribunal: Rather than face justice, the British-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem—later known as "Hitler's Mufti"—was removed from Germany to a Parisian safe-house after the war, and eventually delivered into the bosom of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

    Of French Solutions to Mideast Peace 2011

  • We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in a safe-house apartment in New York City, pondering his conversion to Islam and his experiences training in Pakistan, preparing for the violent action he has been instructed to take in 31 hours.

    31 Hours by Masha Hamilton: Book summary 2010

  • He even covered my retreat as I got in a boat and puttered downstream to collapse on the camp bed of the nearest safe-house.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • I hopped into a nearby UNIMOG (a vehicle that looks like the love child of a tank and a dune buggy) and continued on my journey east through the dense jungle, spying and capturing a safe-house just off the main road.

    Permanent Death, Episode 2: From Here to the Hearafter Ben Abraham 2009

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