Word: loudnesses
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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...
...call has never been so loud or urgent: Tony Blair, a growing number of Britons say, must take a giant step away from George W. Bush before it is too late. It was bad enough that the case for war crumbled with the failure to find weapons of mass destruction and the increasing hostility of many Iraqis toward their occupiers. But with the revelations of torture and humiliation by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison - and their unhappy echo in tales of abuse by some British soldiers - Britain's self-respect and image in the world is on the line...
It’s not as though we have greater problems in the library, such as ringing cell phones or loud disruptive students. No, no. Better deal with the food crisis. Just take a look at Lamont! It’s practically a dump, strewn with wrappers and littered with empty bottles...
...farmers throwing something together." Chachi says the Marines "are under observation pretty much most of the time." At 9 p.m., while some of the men gather outside to smoke and chat, wearing their body armor in the humid night air, three illumination flares float above, followed by three loud detonations. "Is that us or them?" a Marine asks. It's them. "M____________ are illuminating now," someone else says. The enemy is getting professional...
...Marines always prepare for the worst. At 4:30 a.m., about 150 Marines, backed by Humvees armed with .50-cal. machine guns, push out in a staggered formation, about 10 yds. apart on both edges of the dirt road. To the right, we hear explosions and loud shooting. As we advance, the noise of fighting is joined by the frantic barking of dogs and the lowing of cattle. At a point where the track forks right, a group of Marines sets up mortars and fires them into a building believed to be a reinforced bunker. The building goes...