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May 04, 2004

He dropped dollar after dollar into a pay phone tonight. Dead end phone calls to the south, placed outside assorted convenience markets. The connections appear to be lost. Perhaps just forgotten. Summer asylum arrangements still have to wait. As he walked away from the phone and considered the potential company, the delay suddenly seemed wise.

She sat on the lake shore, feeling the sun on her arms and the first true hot damp humidity of pending summer. On the run from Atlanta, but staying ever in The South. Summer asylum arrangements seemed successfully dodged. She contemplated sleep under the loblolly pine. Tomorrow, the road would lead through Birmingham.

J. Shell, May 4, 2004 10:25 PM, in Perfect and Unbelievable Hearsay

Harpers.org has a comprehensive listing of events, published in the magazine and online since 2000, related to torture. It groups torture under war crimes, under war tactics, under war, under human endeavor.

The May 2004 issue of Harper's has a reading of dispatches from Guantánamo, as interviews of released prisoners collected by the BBC and Human Rights Watch. The interviews cover more torture and abuse.

Billmon captures scenes from a cover up. A stunning collection of quotes and links denying and documenting American torture abuses in Iraq and Guantánamo.

The October 2003 issue of The Atlantic has a cover story by Mark Bowden on The Dark Art of Interrogation, covering many different sides and history of this issue.

J. Shell, May 4, 2004 08:34 AM, in Industrie Politico