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...government lawyers began crafting even bolder interpretations of anti-torture laws. A Justice Department memo in August advised the CIA that torturing al-Qaeda terrorists abroad "may be justified," the Washington Post reported last week. In December, Rumsfeld approved a list of 17 interrogation tactics for Guantanamo, including sleep deprivation and "stress" positions. Amid concerns that the tactics violated international law, Rumsfeld withdrew the list a month later and asked for a policy review. He issued a new list in April 2003 that is still in use. According to a former Pentagon official who worked on the review, the final...
...Iraq, rules governing interrogation of prisoners broke down as untrained soldiers tried to cope with thousands of detainees and the military blurred distinctions between resistance fighters and terrorists. A senior Pentagon official says the rules for interrogation in Iraq were "more aggressive than the ones at Guantanamo." Stress positions, sleep deprivation, the use of dogs to intimidate detainees--all violations of Geneva--were allowed in Iraq, though they had not been used at Guantanamo. At Abu Ghraib, detainees wore plastic bracelets printed with their ID number and the word terrorist, the Wall Street Journal reported...
...coup, and until the U.S. recognizes a legitimate regime, he can't go into the city or back home. (It's not explained why many others on his flight wouldn't be in the same predicament.) So Viktor is under airport arrest; to find food, work, a place to sleep and a woman to love, he must rely on his own resources. Which are considerable. This is, after all, a Spielberg movie (Viktor is E.T., the sweet alien who wants to fulfill his mission and go home) and a Hanks film (Viktor is the castaway, one man in a strange...
...London last year I told the publisher $75 a day is impossible. They said, 'Can we do it for $90?' I suggested $150, but they didn't want to frighten people off." I asked Olson for some thrifty London tips. He erupted in laughter. "I guess you could sleep in Trafalgar Square and eat one meal a day out of a dumpster." Maybe that way I'd eat better...
...friends as "Legija" for his time in the French Foreign Legion, merely protested his innocence. Dressed in a neat gray suit that concealed his garish, arm-length tattoos, he said that when he heard he was accused of the crime, "I told myself, Milorad, this must be some mistake. Sleep on it. Something has to be cleared up." He went into hiding that night, but turned himself in to Belgrade police last month. Far from clearing things up, though, Lukovic's testimony is likely to undermine further a trial that has already taken its share of hard knocks, from defense...