![]() The last is the first mentioned, the prison where Xavier is detained, “accused of being a founding member of a terrorist network.” In 2005, the United States opened Fort Suse, a prison to hold detainees being relocated from Abu Ghraib. You search for the names of barely familiar places which may or may not exist: Sennacherib (the ancient Assyrian ruler built a palace at Nineveh, near what is now Mosul) the River Zab, a tributary of the Tigris the prison at Suse. But even these compel you to unearth bits and pieces of the not-so-secret history, driving you to the reference books, or at least Wikipedia. Some feel like red herrings-a reference to Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan dissident disappeared in Paris back in ’65. Humvees, Apaches, and Predators-the current vocabulary of war and occupation. ![]() Reading the letters, you plot coordinates in time and space words signal when and where: mobiles, F-16s, Evo, Chavez. ![]()
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