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...attempts to take him prisoner. The whole point of the U.S. policy shift, however, was to call off the hunt for Aidid, which was widely blamed for converting what started out as a humanitarian mission into a mini war, in order to concentrate on a political - settlement that would prevent the country from falling apart after U.S. troops leave. To that end, Robert Oakley, Clinton's special envoy, met with five of Aidid's aides, though not the warlord himself. Afterward Oakley told reporters that Aidid wanted to be President of Somalia someday and . . . well . . . who knows? The buttering...
...intelligence wrung from terror detainee Abu Zubaydah (whom the CIA waterboarded "at least" 83 times, according to an an agency document released by the Obama Administration last week) led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks. His capture, in turn, helped prevent future terror strikes, they maintain; Mohammed himself, the memos revealed, was waterboarded a startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily for as long as 40 seconds per event). Then...
...matter of fact, they probably did much worse. They were given the specific tasks of ferreting out problems in the companies which they were picked to operate and fix them. Each one expressed optimism about accomplishing their goals only to face the need for government intervention to prevent collapse. Not one of the three simply acknowledged that his company was too badly broken to be fixed by its own devices...
...seven runs with two outs and winning the game, 11-5.“We did well staying on them—they would score, we would score, never giving up, never letting down,” said rookie first baseman Whitney Shaw. “We should have prevented that runaway inning and should have just stopped the bleeding before it got bad, but we did make a good effort at the end to try to come back.”BROWN 11, HARVARD 5In a slugfest that featured a combined 20 hits and 14 walks, a pitching breakdown...
...Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) - and that those who went through the training had not suffered any lasting physical or mental health effects. In the 2002 memo, Bybee notes the CIA's assurance that "a medical expert with SERE experience will be present" when Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded, to prevent severe mental or physical harm. However, the IG investigation found that the waterboarding technique used on the CIA's detainees was significantly different from that used in the SERE program: most notably, the Agency's interrogators used much larger volumes of water...