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...Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security service, plays loud rock music and ties prisoners in uncomfortable positions for long periods, according to former and current agents. Interrogators tell prisoners their comrades have ratted them out, then leave them together in a cell and tape their conversations. All of this is downright charitable compared with other countries' practices. Many Arab governments, including the Palestinian Authority, beat and mutilate suspects on a fairly regular basis. Interrogators in other parts of the world aren't even coy about their work. Says a Philippine government interrogator: "Just the very act of stretching your arms...
...want to see military justice in action right now, your best bet is to catch an episode of JAG. But Americans may soon be able to witness the real thing: military officials say the Army is weighing whether to televise the trials of troops accused of abusing Iraqi detainees--an unprecedented step that some believe would help restore U.S. credibility in the eyes of Iraqis...
...called wild confessions," he says. In the 1980s the Israeli Supreme Court restricted interrogators to using "moderate physical pressure" in order to reduce the number of false confessions obtained under torture. But in 1999, after a prisoner died under "moderate pressure," the court banned the practice. The Shin Bet still justifies its use for "ticking bombs," suspects who may know something about an imminent attack...
...bet I did," she says. "I felt very uncomfortable ... I had had conversations with individual board members--the ones that were in on it--to say, 'If a couple comes, what do you expect me to do? I can try to talk them out of it, but what...
...Athens were announced last week, and there on the list among the athletic likes of Magic Johnson, Gail Devers and Carl Lewis was the Greek-American actress. Aniston, whose father's original name is Anastassakis and whose godfather was Telly Savalas, certainly has Hellenic cred. But we still bet My Big Fat Greek Wedding's Nia Vardalos is peeved...