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There’s an awful lot to detain you in Barcelona, but just beyond the city are several sites eminently worthy of day trips, including the holy Catalan shrine Montserrat, the relaxed beach- and-museum town of Sitges, and the cava wine country in the region of Penedès.
In mid-December, President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Ladin lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody.
But there’s little to detain a visitor and no attractive accommodations.
On Thursday, the United States told the Coast Guard to bar Japanese cargo ships from U.S. ports and to detain those already here.
The Hispanic agents often come in for special pleading in Spanish and failing that, special abuse, from those they detain.