But eventually the details of the story dribbled out, including the news that the police had stormed an apartment in the Saarland where he lived and wounded one Arab man and detained several others.
It said that it had detained two soldiers and that it expected to detain others.
The answer could well determine whether the United States detains others under similar circumstances, and it could influence how the country fights terrorism.
China has released some dissidents in recent months, but it has also detained others in the run-up to the fifth anniversary on June 4 of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Conrad of Speyer was charged with executing one messenger and detaining others.
Having detained Tosco and numerous others, the mysterious June 30 assassination of Augusto Vandor provided a pretext for Ongaro's arrest and the banning of the CGTA.
They were in your care and you could release some and detain others.
The Foreign Office in London said that even as Mr. Hussein was talking about letting people go, he was detaining others.
In those towns, soldiers rounded up all the men and boys, executed some on the spot and detained others, and then used violence, including rape, to drive the rest of the people away, the report says.
Bibrka was the site of a Soviet prison and detention centre that detained Poles and others in the mid-20th century.