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...Diadema's restriction on drinking hours is enforced by special groups of police and inspectors who patrol the city's streets each night after the 11 pm cut-off. When officers find a bar flouting the law, the owners receive an initial warning. Then, if the bar gets caught again, the owners are fined about $60 and double that amount if they get nailed a third time. One more transgression, and the bar gets closed down. Exemptions are hard-won, and so far have been granted to just 30 establishments that have been soundproofed, hired their own security guards...
...When the legislation was passed by the City Council in 2002, few people believed it would work. Since Brazilian laws are often not worth the paper they are written on, Diadema tried to safeguard its enforcers from getting corrupted. For starters, when the four patrol cars go out on each night, only the team leader knows what route they will take. The police and inspectors also ride together, making it hard to bribe one without the knowledge or cooperation of the others. When they come across a bar selling alcohol after hours, they are careful to approach with a minimum...
...weeks ago, a Marine on foot patrol came up to Thabet's home, stopped and smiled at Thabet's two little daughters who were playing in the yard. He gave them some candy. Peering into the house, he saw Thabet's sister making fresh Iraqi bread in the oven. ?Can I have some?? he asked. Thabet says the rules of Arab hospitality obliged him to invite the soldier into the yard and share his bread. As they ate, the two men made small talk - the Marine spoke some broken Arabic, and Thabet has a little English. When Thabet gave...
...Marines continue to patrol al-Subhani; on Hay al-Sinnani, there are convoys of Humvees practically every other day. There are occasional foot patrols. The week after the massacre, the Marines were edgy and hostile. ?They would get on top of the roofs of our houses and point their guns around,? says Thabet. ?They would constantly tell us, 'We know some terrorists have passed this way; where did they go?'? Gradually, the patrols returned to normal...
...hindsight, it seems remarkable that the Marines were able to conceal such a horrific event for so long. It began, as so many things in Iraq do, with an explosion. At about 7:15 in the morning on Nov. 19, a string of four humvees were on routine patrol in a residential area when a white taxicab approached from the opposite end of the street. The Marines made hand and arm signals for the taxi to stop. But as the taxi halted near the first humvee, a bomb under the fourth humvee exploded, killing its driver--Lance Corporal Miguel...