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NBC's David Bloom, recounting how McCain had been "brutally and repeatedly tortured," quoted a commander who said of McCain, "There was no tougher resister among POWs."
Serb defendants' excuses: 1) they weren't aware of the concentration camps that killed and tortured Muslims; 2) the camps started out innocently and then got out of hand; or 3) they killed prisoners because they anticipated a murderous onslaught by Muslims.
During the 1980s, Cornwell worked in a coroner's office, and now she specializes in clinical descriptions of autopsies, explaining in graphic detail how to analyze the vaginal swab of a raped corpse or how to test skin ripped off a tortured child's buttock.
The tortured giant became the risen Christ, stepping from his tomb.
Anyone who had been stretched on this legal rack for so long would do anything to prevent the next guy from being similarly tortured.