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  • While the Egyptian women I've talked with say that they're not afraid of dying for the cause, they don't want women stripped naked in public, endure physical violence, face humiliation of "virginity tests" and get harassed with cooked-up charges of prostitution.

    Fahad Faruqui: Egyptian Women Will Not Be Silenced Fahad Faruqui 2011

  • While the Egyptian women I've talked with say that they're not afraid of dying for the cause, they don't want women stripped naked in public, endure physical violence, face humiliation of "virginity tests" and get harassed with cooked-up charges of prostitution.

    Fahad Faruqui: Egyptian Women Will Not Be Silenced Fahad Faruqui 2011

  • The cooked-up crisis, over Iran's supposed option of "breaking out" to manufacture a weapon, goes on a false premise.

    David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

  • The latest operation is certainly timely and disturbing, culminating in the explosion of an oil tanker in Galveston Bay with all (planted) signs pointing to Iraq, with the implication being that cooked-up intelligence can launch a misbegotten war.

    Finale Watch: Mad Men, Rubicon 2010

  • While the Egyptian women I've talked with say that they're not afraid of dying for the cause, they don't want women stripped naked in public, endure physical violence, face humiliation of "virginity tests" and get harassed with cooked-up charges of prostitution.

    Fahad Faruqui: Egyptian Women Will Not Be Silenced Fahad Faruqui 2011

  • The cooked-up crisis, over Iran's supposed option of "breaking out" to manufacture a weapon, goes on a false premise.

    David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran David Bromwich 2012

  • The Cameron-Lansley plan was cooked-up at central office in opposition, and served up as a finished white paper just two months after the election.

    Health and social care bill: A dismal alternative to real reform | Editorial 2012

  • While the Egyptian women I've talked with say that they're not afraid of dying for the cause, they don't want women stripped naked in public, endure physical violence, face humiliation of "virginity tests" and get harassed with cooked-up charges of prostitution.

    Fahad Faruqui: Egyptian Women Will Not Be Silenced Fahad Faruqui 2011

  • Despite, or perhaps because of, being heavily briefed by the top intelligence professionals she touts for the top posts, she was fooled by cooked-up intel to support the invasion of Iraq on the basis of non-existent weapons of mass destruction.

    CIA: The Panetta Pick and the Feinstein Factor 2010

  • During the Bush/Cheney years, the CIA has gone from the heights of managing a swiftly successful proxy and special ops war in Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to the depths of cooked-up Iraq WMD reports and the morass of torture and rendition.

    CIA: The Panetta Pick and the Feinstein Factor 2010

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