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Months earlier, she had tasked her youngest son, Abdul Halim Hafidh Ameir, to lead a special intelligence unit known as Watu Wasiojulikana—or Unknown Assailants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Assailants might have found him hard to locate, for he often could not locate himself: his absentmindedness was prodigious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their leader, a Colonel Drew, fortified the place strongly, barricading all approaches, and planting three large guns "to beate of the Assailants".

From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson

The use of this stage was to stand upon to throw Darts at the Assailants, and a number of Darts lay upon it for that purpose.

From Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World by Cook, James

"We repeat, this received the unanimous sanction of the General Synod," Dr. Brown declared in his pamphlet "The General Synod and Her Assailants."

From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by Bente, F. (Friedrich)