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...head and another who had torn out his hair after being chained all night in a hot room. Former Army Sergeant Erik Saar, who served at Gitmo and wrote Inside the Wire with TIME correspondent Viveca Novak, has described an instance in which a female interrogator smeared fake menstrual blood on a captive's face. It may have been a measure of how detainees are treated that when Army Specialist Sean Baker played the role of an inmate in a 2003 training exercise, he says he was beaten so badly by MPs, who did not know...
...with a range of more than 3,500m. The patrol leader - according to his own report - ordered his men to set up an observation post about 40 m from the gun. Because there were no rocks or shrubs big enough to shield them, they would have to build two fake bushes from pieces of smaller plants. At this point, says the trooper, dissent began to emerge. Constructing hides so close to the weapon was too risky, some of the men thought: they could keep watch just as effectively, and more safely, from further away. "There were other places to hide...
...brisk and sassy, right at the intersection of the law genre and women's fiction. Vicki and Reheema make a sharp, urban Thelma and Louise. The story swings from the gritty to the grand, always with lawyerly attention to detail. "It's Philadelphia," Scottoline explains. "It's not a fake place. There's real police procedure. There's real law. I have to follow...
...London Times discovers the similarity between Protocols and a nearly forgotten French parody of Napoleon III. A major portion of The Plot compares passages from both sources in an effort to expose the obvious similarities and outright plagiaries, a comparison that the Times used to declare The Protocols a fake in 1921. The final, melancholy third of The Plot examines the enduring virus of Protocols, which, in spite of numerous, incontrovertible findings of being wholly forged, continues to be published the world over as truth. Eisner puts himself in the book, as the saddened pursuer of history who confronts...
...officer was dispatched to Mather House to investigate an alleged larceny. An person reported a fraud, which exacted a total loss of $500, when he or she was given a fake check and had attempted to cash...