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...Tragedy in the Military Thank you for "The Dark Side of Recruiting," detailing the suicides of U.S. Army recruiters [April 20]. The humiliating methods used against recruiters who do not make their quotas parallel the dehumanizing impulse of war, most famously seen with our torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. Is it the best training for men and women who choose a military career to feel, as one of your subjects says, "basically forced to do things outside of what would normally be considered to be moral or ethical"? Another probable cause of the suicides: maybe recruiters feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...ready for Abu Ghraib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Detainee Photo Scandal: Get Ready for Abu Ghraib, Act II | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...That's according to the mission statement of the blogger Legofesto, who's amazingly found a way to use LEGO - the stackable, clickable, infinitely malleable children's toys - to tell the story of Guantanamo Bay detainees, prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, British bank instability, and civilian deaths in the Iraq War. Legofesto, a blogger located in the United Kingdom, won't reveal her identity, but her politics are clear. According to the profile on her blog, she's "a politics-junkie and news-hound, with a obsession for lego and other construction toys ... She is very, very pissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lego Violence | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...individual placed in a box, even an individual with a fear of insects, would not reasonably feel threatened with severe physical pain or suffering if a caterpillar was placed in the box." -An August 1, 2002 Justice Department memo signed by Bybee concluding that suspected terrorist Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to fear insects, could lawfully be confined with a caterpillar. The technique was not used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Bybee: The Man Behind Waterboarding | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...questioning al-Qaeda operatives and Sunni insurgents. Alexander, who uses a pseudonym for security reasons, is the author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq. His interrogations led to the location and killing of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Waterboarding: What Interrogators Can Still Do | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

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