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...Suskind reports that the CIA learned that Zubaydah had suffered a head wound during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In fact, in a diary captured by the CIA, he wrote as if he were three different people. In reality, Suskind reports, he actually was merely a low-level al-Qaeda drone, "like the guy you call who handles the company health plan." A CIA official told Suskind that Zubaydah was like "Joe Louis in the lobby of Caesar's Palace, shaking hands," after the fighter was punch drunk and well past his prime. Nonetheless, Bush characterized...
...company alongside the horrors at the defunct Nazi concentration camp. Rosenthal, who just recently died at the age of 84, movingly recalled his unease at seeing the sunny rows of poplars and hearing the sounds of town children playing just down the road from the remains of torture chambers, low-level barracks and human furnaces. ?It all seemed frighteningly wrong, as in a nightmare,? he wrote. ?It would be fitting if the sun never shone and the grass withered, because this is a place of unutterable terror...
...campaign couldn't be clearer. "We need to break with the past," Borsellino told Time. "We have a system based on pure political patronage that makes people think they have to go ask 'Please' for something that should be their right." She believes there is a fundamental link between low-level favor swapping and Cosa Nostra's firm hold on Sicily. "Patronage is illegality," she said. "The Mafia's relationship with the economic and political world has slowed development, and impoverished Sicily." Borsellino says her opponent's decision to run despite the Mafia charges "sends a very bad message...
...infects soil and crops and often proves so drug-resistant that whole crop fields must be dug up and burned. Not everyone is convinced that the fungus entered the cave on the thick soles of contractors' boots. Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, director of the lrmh, says that a long-term, low-level presence of formaldehyde in the cave - ironically used as a foot wash for decades to prevent such infections - may have killed off many of the other organisms that might have prevented such an explosion of fusarium. "The fusarium strains we found in the cave are extremely resistant to formaldehyde...
national reconciliation. It was granted to low-level Argentine military officers who committed human rights abuses during the country’s “Dirty War.” Augusto Pinochet declared amnesty for all Chilean military officers prior to handing over power to a democratic government. Amnesty, we are told, is an affront to the legitimacy of our legal system...