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When the detainee known at No. 063, Mohammad al-Qahtani, first arrived in Guantanamo Bay detention center in spring 2002, he resisted interrogation. FBI agents on the scene described efforts to break his initial resistance, saying he was subject to intimidation by a military dog and "intense isolation over three months" that led to "behavior consistent with extreme psychological trauma (talking to non-existent people, reporting hearing voices, crouching in a cell covered with a sheet for hours)." The FBI reports formed part of a letter sent by a senior FBI official to the Pentagon complaining of abuse witnessed...
...MacBook does have a few elements that the iMac doesn't share:?The illuminated keyboard works with a twilight sensor, adjusting the backlighting so you can always see the keys; the screen is much brighter than previous models - fully viewable, even when?you use it while sitting in a bay window on a sunny day; and the MagSafe magnetic breakaway power cord works as billed, so kids and cats can tug without risk to body or machine.?Leave it to Apple designers to take a cue from the makers of deep fryers and fondue pots...
When Rhage’s inner beast surfaces, all those around him are in mortal danger. Fighting and mindless sex keep the beast at bay, but Rhage still has a century until it can be exorcised from his body. Until then, his nightly regime involves searching for the Lessening Society and keeping busy with barely-clad women who he only uses...
...flipped on the television in my bedroom the other day and quickly became convinced that a foreign dignitary was paying the Bay State an official visit. On the screen, a spiffy blue and white jet dubbed the “Spirit of America” landed and, flanked by numerous officials in suits and somber State Troopers flaunting crisp, fresh-pressed uniforms, its door unfurled. Was the President of Zambia paying Mitt Romney a visit? Was Pope Benedict in the plane? I waited in rapt anticipation for the individual deemed worthy of such a triumphal greeting to emerge. Imagine...
...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...