Word: contraband
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...More outrage followed the news last month of a melee between Gitmo detainees and guards. Camp authorities said the fighting erupted when guards attempted to stop an inmate from apparently committing suicide, but some detainees (speaking through their lawyers) reported that the incident was sparked by a search for contraband in Korans. Those searches, GTMO authorities say, are only carried out by interpreters, detainees or other Muslims, never by guards themselves. Two prisoners tried to commit suicide on May 18 by swallowing antianxiety medication they had managed to hoard...
...indeed, the bombardment didn?t disturb the Iraqis all that much. In fact, some simply shrugged it off. "The Iraqis I spoke with were actually quite satisfied and pleased" following Desert Fox, said Charles Duelfer, the WMD expert who went looking for such contraband inside Iraq both before and after the U.S. invasion. "One individual I spoke with said, `Well, gee, if we knew that that was all you were going to do? - meaning the four days of bombing - `we would have ended this [standoff with U.N. arms inspectors], you know, earlier,?" Duelfer told a Senate panel in 2004. Following...
...food, they often go hungry and end up eating what they catch. The Greenpeace crew felt so sorry for some of the fishermen that they gave them bags of rice, flour, noodles, beans and lentils. Larger vessels from the fishing companies visit every few months to take away the contraband fish. That way the rusting hulks and their tiny crews never have to leave the fishing grounds. Some crews stay for years, eventually abandoning their ships in the shallow waters. "It's a horrible situation," says Walsh. "These young men wasting away on a shambles of a ship, while their...
...wore black leather shoes with an unfashionably large buckle, gray pants that were too short and a gigantic double-breasted jacket. He once lived on a commune, and he still wears an oversize ring that he said was made by Zuni Indians. "I traded it for some contraband in the '60s in Taos," he told me. His critics will be delighted to learn that Hayes attended two est trainings in Atlanta years ago. He admits that he also dabbled in meditation seminars, "eco-freak" rallies, druggy parties and all the other appurtenances of a radical '70s lifestyle...
...lawyer, many of them several times," she says. "Four hours before the shoot they decided we could take the pictures, but Morris couldn't wear the jersey." Though the prison permitted Photographer Red Morgan to cart in lights, cameras and pounds of paraphernalia, Morris' jersey was deemed to be contraband. To authorities, apparently, Morris is no longer...