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/ St. Clair's Scorching New History of a Decade of War
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Today's
Stories
May
10, 2004
Diane
Christian
Images & Abstractions &
Genitals
May
8 / 9, 2004
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Torture: as American as Apple Pie
Adam
Jones
America's Srebrenica: What About the Hundreds of POWs Suffocated
and Shot at Kunduz?
Douglas
Valentine
Who Let the Dogs Out?: Torture, the CIA and the Press
Kurt
Nimmo
Rush Limbaugh and the Babes of Abu Ghraib
Brian
Cloughley
Humpty Dumpty is Falling
Lucia
Dailey
Forbidden Games
Joanne
Mariner
* * * *: Redacting Moussaoui
Mickey
Z.
Please Forgive U.S.? (There Are No Innocent Bystanders)
John
Chuckman
The Thing with No Brain
Doug
Giebel
Someone Knew: There Were No WMDs
Norm
Dixon
How the Bush Gang Exploited 9/11
Sam
Bahour
A Guiding Light Falls on Ramallah
Susan
Davis
Disorderly Conduct as Fine Art
Dave
Marsh
In a Pig's Eye: Alan Lomax, Dead But Still Stealing
Laura
Flanders
Life with Dick and Lynne
Dave
Zirin
Fans Push Spiderman Off Base
Carolyn
Baker
Why I Won't Vote in 2004
Prince
"Ain't No Sense in Voting"
Dr.
Susan Block
Onan for Two: Liberating Masturbation
Poets'
Basement
Smith, Sleeth, Ford, Albert and Saska
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May
7, 2004
Human
Rights Watch
10 Prisons; 9,000 Prisoners: US Detention
Facilities in Iraq
Ron
Jacobs
UnAmerican? I Wish It Were So
Robert
Fisk
An Illegal and Immoral War
Ahmad
Faruqui
The 50th Anniversary of Dien Bien
Phu
Alexander
Zaitchik
From Terrell Unit in Texas to Abu Ghraib: Doesn't It Ring a (Prison)
Bell?
Mike
Whitney
The Price of Victory
Norman
Solomon
This War, Racism and Media Denial
M.
Shahid Alam
A Comic Apology
May
6, 2004
Jeffrey
St. Clair
They Did It for Jessica: Smeared with
Shit; Kicked to Death
Kathy
Kelly
May Day in Pekin Prison: Prison Labor
for the War Machine
Werther
The Sunk Cost Fallacy: War as Vegas
Casino Game
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti
Totalitarian Democracy
Robert
Fisk
"Smoke Him": Video Shows Wounded
Men Being Shot by US Helicopter
John
Janney
Torturing the Way to Freedom?
Christopher
Ketcham
Outlaw Heterosexual Marriage Now!
Alan
Farago
Dead Oceans: So Long, Thanks for the Fish
Sam
Hamod
Bush on Arab TV: Worthless and Demeaning
James
Brooks
Sullen Spring
William
S. Lind
On the Brink of Defeat in Iraq
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May
5, 2004
Maj.
Gen. Antonio M. Taguba
Complete US Army Report on Abuse of
Iraqi Prisoners
Kathleen
and Bill Christison
Kerry: a Lost Cause for Progressives?
Will
Youmans
Deal with the Devil: a Palestinian
Zionist and the End of the World
Patrick
B. Barr
Terrorists R Us: the Powerful are Exempt from the Label
Lawrence
Magnuson
Nightline's All-American Morgue
Greg
Moses
Pocketbook of Denuded Ideals
Niranjan
Ramakrishnan
Tormenting Prisoners, Torturing
Truth
Lee
Ballinger
Cinco de Mayo and Unity
Gilbert
Achcar
Bush's Cakewalk into the Iraq Quaqmire
Website
of the Day
Operation Phoenix & Iraq
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May
4, 2004
Human
Rights Watch
A Timeline of Torture and Abuse Allegations
and Responses
Kurt
Nimmo
The CIA Privatized Torture
David
Peterson
CBS, Self-Censorship & Iraq
Barry
Lando
CACI's Private Torture Chambers
Patrick
Cockburn
Torture: Iraqis Disgusted, But Not Surprised
Dr.
Susan Block
Indecent Insurgents: Watch What You Say
Fidel
Castro
A Mindless, Unnecessary War
Mike
Whitney
Empire of Torture
Sonali
Kolhatkar
How to Stop the War: Demonstrate Against
John Kerry
Josh
Frank
The Lost Sierra Club
Stan
Goff
The Role: Another Open Letter to US Troops in Iraq
Agustin
Velloso
Spare Us Your Disgusting Ethics
Stew
Albert
American Know-How
Website
of the Day
Scenes from a Cover-Up
May
3, 2004
Virginia
Tilley
Let the Wall of Silence Fall
May
1 / 2, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
An Army in Disgrace, a Policy
in Tatters, the Real Prospect of Defeat
Robert
Fisk
"Good Guys" Who Can Do No
Wrong
Alexander
Cockburn
Watching Niagara: Stupid Leaders,
Useless Spies, Angry World
Heather
Williams
Gringo, We're Going Home: Latin
American Troops Flee Iraq
Diane
Rejman
An Army Vet on Torture in Iraq:
Abu Ghraib as My Lai?
Diane
Christian
Blood Spilling: Osama, Bush and
Sharon Speak the Same Language
Patrick
Cockburn
Seems Like Old Times in Fallujah
Dave
Lindorff
Bush's Torturous Logic: Shocked,
Shocked, Shocked
Chris
Floyd
Suicide Bomber: Neocons, Nihilists
and Annihilation
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April
29 / 30, 2004
Dave
Zirin
A Pawn in Their Game: the Unlonesome
Death of Pat Tillman
Kathy
Kelly
The Warden's Tour
Greg
Weiher
Fallujah and the Warsaw Ghetto: the
Banality of Evil
Michael
S. Ladah
Terrorism and Assassination: the
Ultimate Depception
Patrick
Cockburn
The Fallujah Mutinies
April
28, 2004
Christopher
Brauchli
Meet Congressman Know-Nothing:
Tom Tancredo
Wendy
Brinker
The Politics of the Numb
Faisal
Kutty
The Dirty Work of Canadian Intelligence
John
Chuckman
Seeking the Evil One
Mike
Whitney
Flag-Draped Coffins and the Seattle Times
Tom
Mountain
Rwanda and the F***** Word
Graeme
Greenback
The Iraqi Alamo: a CNN/CIA Production
Tracy
McLellan
The War Comes Home
M.
Junaid Alam
We are the Barbarians
William
Loren Katz
Iraq, the US and an Old Lesson
April 27, 2004
James
Davis
The Colombia 3 Acquitted
Dave
Lindorff
Chalabi as Prosecutor
Bruce
Schneier
Terrorist Threats and Political
Gain
Cockburn
/ Sengupta
British Generals Resist Calls for
More Troops to Aid Americans in Iraq
Walt
Brasch
Presidential Letters: The Day I
Was Asked to Feed an Elephant
Saul
Landau
The Empire in Denial and the Denial
of Empire
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April 26, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
Crossing the Shia Line: US Troops
Prepare to Enter Najaf
Wayne
Madsen
Trading Places: Will the US Go the Way of the USSR?
Grover
Furr
Protest, Rebellion, Commitment
Elaine
Cassel
Lies About the Patriot Act
Mickey
Z.
Inspired by Pat Tillman?
Greg
Moses
Bremer's De-De-Ba'athjfication Gambit
Gila
Svirsky
Anarchy in Our Souls
Uri
Avnery
Vanunu and the Terrible Secret
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April 24 / 25, 2004
William
A. Cook
Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Kerry
and Bush Melt into One
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Stryking Out: a General, GM and the Army's Latest Tank
Brandy
Baker
A Revitalized Women's Movement? Let's Hope So
Robert
Fisk
A Warning to Those Who Dare Criticize Israel in the Land of Free
Speech
Ben
Tripp
October Surmise: a Case of Worst Scenarios
Nelson
Valdés
"Submit or Die": Iraq and the American Borg
Lucson
Pierre-Charles
Haiti's Return to the Future
Kurt
Nimmo
The CIA Killed Pat Tillman
Mark
Scaramella
Does Anybody Know Anything?
Patrick
Cockburn
The Return of Saddam's Generals
Gary
Engler
Welcome to La Paz: a Vacation in Tear Gas
Col.
Dan Smith
Whistling in the Dark: Israel, Palestine and Bush
Greg
Weiher
Iraq is Utterly Unlike Vietnam...
Elaine
Cassel
Life on the Outside: a Review
Vanessa
Jones
Letter from Australia: Why an Independent Won Sydney
Jim
French
Agriculture's Bullied Market
Hammond
Guthrie
Al Aronowitz, Bob Dylan and The Beatles
Poets'
Basement
Jones, Holt, Albert, LaMorticella
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April 23, 2004
Ron
Jacobs
The Only Solution is Immediate Withdrawal
Dave
Lindorff
Imagination Deficit Disorder
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Contractors and Mercenaries: the Rising Corporate Military Monster
Norman
Solomon
Country Joe Band, 2004: "What Are We Fighting For?"
Cynthia
McKinney
All Things Are Not Equal: the Perils of Globalization
CounterPunch
Wire
A Bitch Called Wanda
Karyn
Strickler
Sierra Club, Inc.
Hammond
Guthrie
Yellow Caked in the Face
Paul
de Rooij
Graveyard of Justifications: Glossary
of the Iraqi Occupation
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April 22, 2004
Patrick
Cockburn
When Terror Came to Basra: "I
Saw a Minibus of Children on Fire"
Tanya
Reinhart
The Wall Behind Disengagement
Lance
Selfa
Why is Kucinich Still in the Race?
Josh
Frank
Street Fighting Man? Kucinich's Pulled Punches
Sen.
Robert Byrd
Bush Owes America Answers on Iraq
William
S. Lind
Why We Get It Wrong
Mickey
Z.
Undoing the Latches
Robert
Jensen
Why They Fast: Remembering the Victims of the World Bank
John
L. Hess
The New York Times from 30,000 Feet
April
21, 2004
Gary
Leupp
Yeats on Iraq
Alfredo
Castro
Colombia's Forgotten Prisoners
Dr.
Susan Block
Bush's Taliban Drug Deal
William
A. Cook
George 1 to George 2
Jack
Random
Iraq and Vietnam
Jean-Guy
Allard
Alarcon Meets the Editors
Mike
Whitney
Charade in the Desert
Bill
Christison
Only Major Policies Changes Can
Help Washington Now
April 20, 2004
Dave
Lindorff
Bush and Kerry Share a Problem
Stan
Cox
Wal-Mart's Magic Numbers
Bruce
Anderson
On Listening to Air America
Joseph
Kalvoda
Czech Mate for Condi
Greg
Moses
Yesterday's Intelligence
Stan
Goff
The Democrats and Iraq
Website
of the Day
Santorum Happens
April 19, 2004
Kurt
Nimmo
The "Central Hand" of the
Resistance
Mike
Whitney
Bob Woodward's Imperial Trifles
Douglas
Valentine
52 Pick-Up and the 100-to-1
Rule
John
Chuckman
The Sharon Annex: Evil Does Often
Triumph
Doug
Giebel
Welcome to the Club
Rahul
Mahajan
Hospital Closings and War Crimes
April
16 / 18, 2004
Robert
Fisk
Bush Legitimizes Terror
Saul
Landau
Subverting Brazil and Cuba
Dave
Lindorff
Paying for War: $2,150 per Family
and Counting
Brandy
Baker
Fallujah's Collateral Damage
Mickey
Z.
The Left Attacks from the Right
Bruce
Jackson
The Bush Press Conference: Gott Mit
Uns
Norman
Solomon
How the "NewsHour" Changed
History
Alexander
Cockburn
Bush, Kerry and Empire
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April
15, 2004
Greg
Moses
Follow the Families, Not the Script
Virginia
Tilley
The Carnage According to Gen. Kimmitt:
Just Change the Channel
Ron
Jacobs
They Coulda Been Champions of the
World: Hurricane Carter and Ron Kovic
Michael
Neumann
A Happy Compromise: Hate Crimes
Reporting in the Toronto Globe and Mail
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14, 2004
Tom
Reeves
Return to Haiti: an American Learning
Zone
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Fiyouzat
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Ron
Jacobs
What Bush Really Said
Diane
Christian
The Real Passion
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May
10, 2004
The Israeli
Torture Template
Rape, Feces
and Urine-Dipped Cloth Sacks
By WAYNE MADSEN
With mounting evidence that a shadowy
group of former Israeli Defense Force and General Security Service
(Shin Bet) Arabic-speaking interrogators were hired by the Pentagon
under a classified "carve out" sub-contract to brutally
interrogate Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, one
only needs to examine the record of abuse of Palestinian and
Lebanese prisoners in Israel to understand what Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld meant, when referring to new, yet to
be released photos and videos, he said, "if these images
are released to the public, obviously its going to make matters
worse."
According to a political appointee
within the Bush administration and U.S. intelligence sources,
the interrogators at Abu Ghraib included a number of Arabic-speaking
Israelis who also helped U.S. interrogators develop the "R2I"
(Resistance to Interrogation) techniques. Many of the torture
methods were developed by the Israelis over many years of interrogating
Arab prisoners on the occupied West Bank and in Israel itself.
Clues about worse photos and
videos of abuse may be found in Israeli files about similar abuse
of Palestinian and other Arab prisoners. In March 2000, a lawyer
for a Lebanese prisoner kidnapped in 1994 by the Israelis in
Lebanon claimed that his client had been subjected to torture,
including rape. The type of compensation offered by Rumsfeld
in his testimony has its roots in cases of Israeli torture of
Arabs. In the case of the Lebanese man, said to have been raped
by his Israeli captors, his lawyer demanded compensation of $1.47
million. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel documented
the types of torture meted out on Arab prisoners. Many of the
tactics coincide with those contained in the Taguba report: beatings
and prolonged periods handcuffed to furniture. In an article
in the December 1998 issue of The Progressive, Rabbi Lynn
Gottlieb reported on the treatment given to a 23-year old Palestinian
held on "administrative detention." The prisoner was
"cuffed behind a chair 17 hours a day for 120 days . . .
[he] had his head covered with a sack, which was often dipped
in urine or feces. Guards played loud music right next to his
ears and frequently taunted him with threats of physical and
sexual violence." If additional photos and videos document
such practices, the Bush administration and the American people
have, indeed, "seen nothing yet."
Although it is still largely
undocumented if any of the contractor named in the report of
General Antonio Taguba were associated with the Israeli military
or intelligence services, it is noteworthy that one, John Israel,
who was identified in the report as being employed by both CACI
International of Arlington, Virginia, and Titan, Inc., of San
Diego, may not have even been a U.S. citizen. The Taguba report
states that Israel did not have a security clearance, a requirement
for employment as an interrogator for CACI. According to CACI's
web site, "a Top Secret Clearance (TS) that is current and
US citizenship" are required for CACI interrogators working
in Iraq. In addition, CACI requires that its interrogators "have
at least two years experience as a military policeman or similar
type of law enforcement/intelligence agency whereby the individual
utilized interviewing techniques."
Speculation that "John
Israel" may be an intelligence cover name has fueled speculation
whether this individual could have been one of a number of Israeli
interrogators hired under a classified contract. Because U.S.
citizenship and documentation thereof are requirements for a
U.S. security clearance, Israeli citizens would not be permitted
to hold a Top Secret clearance. However, dual U.S.-Israeli citizens
could have satisfied Pentagon requirements that interrogators
hold U.S. citizenship and a Top Secret clearance. Although the
Taguba report refers twice to Israel as an employee of Titan,
the company claims he is one of their sub-contractors. CACI stated
that one of the men listed in the report "is not and never
has been a CACI employee" without providing more detail.
A U.S. intelligence source revealed that in the world of intelligence
"carve out" subcontracts such confusion is often the
case with "plausible deniability" being a foremost
concern.
In fact, the Taguba report
does reference the presence of non-U.S. and non-Iraqi interrogators
at Abu Ghraib. The report states, "In general, US civilian
contract personnel (Titan Corporation, CACI, etc), third country
nationals, and local contractors do not appear to be properly
supervised within the detention facility at Abu Ghraib."
The Pentagon is clearly concerned
about the outing of the Taguba report and its references to CACI,
Titan, and third country nationals, which could permanently damage
U.S. relations with Arab and Islamic nations. The Pentagon's
angst may explain why the Taguba report is classified Secret
No Foreign Dissemination.
The leak of the Taguba report
was so radioactive, Daniel R. Dunn, the Information Assurance
Officer for Douglas Feith's Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense, Policy (Policy Automation Services Security Team), sent
a May 6, 2004, For Official Use Only Urgent E-mail to Pentagon
staffers stating, "THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT
IS CLASSIFIED; DO NOT GO TO FOX NEWS TO READ OR OBTAIN A COPY."
Considering Feith's close ties to the Israelis, such a reaction
by his top computer security officer, a Certified Information
System Security Professional (CISSP), is understandable, although
considering the fact that CISSPs are to act on behalf of the
public good, it is also regrettable..
The reference to "third
country nationals" in a report that restricts its dissemination
to U.S. coalition partners (Great Britain, Poland, Italy, etc.)
is another indication of the possible involvement of Israelis
in the interrogation of Iraqi prisoners. Knowledge that the U.S.
may have been using Israeli interrogators could have severely
fractured the Bush administration's tenuous "coalition of
the willing' in Iraq. General Taguba's findings were transmitted
to the Coalition Forces Land Component Command on March 9, 2004,
just six days before the Spanish general election, one that the
opposition anti-Iraq war Socialists won. The Spanish ultimately
withdrew their forces from Iraq.
During his testimony before
the Senate Armed Service Committee, Rumsfeld was pressed upon
by Senator John McCain about the role of the private contractors
in the interrogations and abuse. McCain asked Rumsfeld four pertinent
questions, ". . . who was in charge? What agency or private
contractor was in charge of the interrogations? Did they have
authority over the guards? And what were the instructions that
they gave to the guards?"
When Rumsfeld had problems
answering McCain's question, Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, the Deputy
Commander of the U.S. Central Command, said there were 37 contract
interrogators used in Abu Ghraib. The two named contractors,
CACI and Titan, have close ties to the Israeli military and technology
communities. Last January 14, after Provost Marshal General of
the Army, Major General Donald Ryder, had already uncovered abuse
at Abu Ghraib, CACI's President and CEO, Dr. J.P. (Jack) London
was receiving the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah's Albert Einstein
Technology award at the Jerusalem City Hall, with right-wing
Likud politician Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and ultra-Orthodox
United Torah Judaism party Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski in
attendance. Oddly, CACI waited until February 2 to publicly announce
the award in a press release. CACI has also received grants from
U.S.-Israeli bi-national foundations.
Titan also has had close connections
to Israeli interests. After his stint as CIA Director, James
Woolsey served as a Titan director. Woolsey is an architect of
America's Iraq policy and the chief proponent of and lobbyist
for Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. An adviser
to the neo-conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,
Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, Project for the
New American Century, Center for Security Policy, Freedom House,
and Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Woolsey is close to
Stephen Cambone, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence,
a key person in the chain of command who would have not only
known about the torture tactics used by U.S. and Israeli interrogators
in Iraq but who would have also approved them. Cambone was associated
with the Project for the New American Century and is viewed as
a member of Rumsfeld's neo-conservative "cabal" within
the Pentagon.
Another person considered by
Pentagon insiders to have been knowledgeable about the treatment
of Iraqi prisoners is U.S. Army Col. Steven Bucci, a Green Beret
and Rumsfeld's military assistant and chief traffic cop for the
information flow to the Defense Secretary. According to Pentagon
insiders, Bucci was involved in the direction of a special covert
operations unit composed of former U.S. special operations personnel
who answered to the Pentagon rather than the CIA's Special Activities
Division, the agency's own paramilitary group. The Pentagon group
included Arabic linguists and former members of the Green Berets
and Delta Force who operated covertly in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran,
Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. Titan also uses linguists trained in
the languages (Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, and Tajik)
of those same countries. It is not known if a link exists between
Rumsfeld's covert operations unit and Titan's covert operations
linguists.
Another Titan employee named
in the Taguba report is Adel L. Nakhla. Nakhla is a name common
among Egypt's Coptic Christian community, however, it is not
known if Adel Nakhla is either an Egyptian-American or a national
of Egypt. A CACI employee identified in the report, Steven Stephanowicz,
is referred to as "Stefanowicz" in a number of articles
on the prison abuse. Stefanowicz is the spelling used by Joe
Ryan, another CACI employee assigned with Stefanowicz to Abu
Ghraib. Ryan is a radio personality on KSTP, a conservative radio
station in Minneapolis, who maintained a daily log of his activities
in Iraq on the radio's web site before it was taken down. Ryan
indicated that Stefanowicz (or Stephanowicz) continued to hold
his interrogation job in Iraq even though General Taguba recommended
he lose his security clearance and be terminated for the abuses
at Abu Ghraib.
In an even more bizarre twist,
the Philadelphia Daily News identified a former expatriate
public relations specialist for the government of South Australia
in Adelaide named Steve Stefanowicz as possibly being the same
person identified in the Taguba report. In 2000, Stefanowicz,
who grew up in the Philadelphia and Allentown areas, left for
Australia. On September 16, 2001, he was quoted by the Sunday
Mail of Adelaide on the 911 attacks. He said of the attacks,
"It was one of the most incredible and most devastating
things I have ever seen. I have been in constant contact with
my family and friends in the US and the mood was very solemn
and quiet. But this is progressing into anger." Stefanowicz
returned to the United States and volunteered for the Navy in
a reserve status. His mother told the Allentown Morning Call
in April 2002 that Stefanowicz was stationed somewhere in the
Middle East but did not know where because of what Stefanowicz
said was "security concerns." His mother told the Philadelphia
Daily News that her son was in Iraq but she knew nothing
about his current status.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative
journalist and columnist. He served in the National Security
Agency (NSA) during the Reagan administration and wrote the introduction
to Forbidden
Truth. He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of "America's
Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II." His
forthcoming book is titled: "Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black
Ops, and Brass Plates."
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
Weekend Edition
Features for May 8 / 9, 2004
Cockburn
/ St. Clair
Torture: as American as Apple Pie
Adam
Jones
America's Srebrenica: What About the Hundreds of POWs Suffocated
and Shot at Kunduz?
Douglas
Valentine
Who Let the Dogs Out?: Torture, the CIA and the Press
Kurt
Nimmo
Rush Limbaugh and the Babes of Abu Ghraib
Brian
Cloughley
Humpty Dumpty is Falling
Lucia
Dailey
Forbidden Games
Joanne
Mariner
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Mickey
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The Thing with No Brain
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