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...accuse of running an iron-fisted regime that controls the police, army, media, legislature and courts, tolerates no rival parties, virtually outlaws free speech and makes liberal use of torture. Inmates inside nearby Maafushi Prison claim they are the epicenter of the repression. "They torture and kill, then they hang the bodies from a bedsheet so it looks like suicide," says one 36-year-old prisoner speaking on a smuggled mobile phone, who says he has seen 12 inmates die this way. Ahmed Nazim, 27, an opposition spokesman, rages that Gayoom has spread "fear" across the islands with a "culture...
...already deep in campaign mode. The roars of soldiers were near deafening, forcing Bush to pause to allow the stunned crowd to settle down. When he did, a few tears briefly welled as he thanked the troops for their bravery. The loudest cheers came with Bush's promise to hang in here, despite the soaring attacks against troops. "We didn't charge hundreds of miles into he heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost in casualties? only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins," he said, as soldiers leaped to their feet, roaring their approval...
There will be resistance from the traditional military. Indeed, there has been a running battle within the Pentagon about how and whether to do peacekeeping. "I used to say that they should hang a sign outside the building, REAL MEN DON'T DO PEACEKEEPING," General John Shalikashvili, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told me. In the 1990s, Shalikashvili conducted an uphill campaign to change that. "I tried to establish a Department of Peacekeeping at the Army War College," he added, "but there was resistance--and to this day the doctrine remains that the best peacekeepers...
...order to hang with the mighty Buffs, the Crimson will need to step up its team defense—an area that was suspect in its exhibition game against UCCB Herzogenburg and has been deficient in the past...