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  • On Monday, American flags stuck out of the ground alongside many of the grave-like memorials.

    Tears and Relief: Marking Historic End Andrew Grossman 2011

  • El Maati, a former truck driver, spent two-and-a-half months in a similar grave-like box in the Palestine Branch of the Damascus detention centre.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Twelve days later, he was chained, shackled and flown to Syria, where he was held in a tiny ‘grave-like’ cell for ten months and ten days before he was moved to a better cell in a different prison.

    Does CSIS condone torure? Or doesn’t it? 2009

  • Twelve days later, he was chained, shackled and flown to Syria, where he was held in a tiny ‘grave-like’ cell for ten months and ten days before he was moved to a better cell in a different prison.

    Does CSIS condone torure? Or doesn’t it? 2009

  • How is that better than Brezhnev's imposed leveling and grave-like silence?

    Alfred Kokh: The 20 Years that Shaped Modern Russia, a Reflection 2009

  • You know, those grave-like structures containing "...a handful of cremated bones looking a lot like muesli" and what the hell is muesli?...second thought, I probably don't want to know...

    Four Stone Hearth 8 Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • In Syria, he was held in a tiny “grave-like” cell for ten months and ten days before he was moved to a better cell in a different prison.

    mjh's blog — 2005 — December 2005

  • Into this narrow, grave-like place, men are brought out to die.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • You know, those grave-like structures containing "...a handful of cremated bones looking a lot like muesli" and what the hell is muesli?...second thought, I probably don't want to know...

    Archive 2007-01-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • Thanks to my big sis, I whimpered a lot as a kid and spent far too much of my childhood hiding out in a muddy grave-like crawlspace under our tract house in a Republican-dominated suburb called Millbrae.

    Throw mama from the plane: My weird skydiving adventure 2006

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