meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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Shot While Trying To Escape

Another prisoner was killed at the Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad in November 2003 by a private contractor who worked as an interrogator for the CIA … because the CIA contractor was not in...

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Oil Shocks

But within three years, we’ll be extracting as much from foreign suppliers as they can spare. At that point, demand cannot continue to grow at the current pace. It cannot exceed supply … For...

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Military Intelligence

[Major General Antonio] Tagubas report listed some of the wrongdoing: Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a...

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Heavy Squaddies

Photographs showing British soldiers beating and urinating on an Iraqi prisoner were published … [they are] beating the man with their rifle butts. He was reportedly arrested for theft. Their victim is said to...

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Empire’s New Clothes

Judging by the most recent communications that we have received from Afghanistan in the form of encrypted cables, as well as by telephone conferences with our chief military adviser . . . the situation...

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Priorities

The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden’s and Saddam...

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Santorum

It had to happen. US Senator Rick Santorum, the “third-ranking Senator in the Republican Party” is now the third-ranked hit on Google for Santorum. The first and second hits for Santorum lead, of course...

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Liberation

In one photograph … naked Iraq prisoners are stacked in a human pyramid, one with a slur written on his skin in English. In another, a prisoner stands on a box, his head covered,...

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Head Cases

Doctors at the main combat support hospital in Iraq are reeling from a stream of young soldiers with wounds so devastating that they probably would have been fatal in any previous war … [doctors]...