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He said he had even brought in a plumber to see if marijuana had been flushed down the toilet.
There were reports of gang leaders who escaped when the jail collapsed resurfacing in shanty towns from which they had been flushed out by UN troops in 2006.
Shopwindows usually bright were dark, and it occurred to him that, of course, people had been flushed onto the sidewalk by the outage.
Underwater, Robert waited a second, until he felt that the boat had been flushed clear of the rocks and the arch.
Mr. Aziz said it was odd that American soldiers would go to such a volatile area where Taliban militants were known to be prevalent even though the Pakistani security forces insisted that they had been flushed out.
But he also had to deal with the fallout of a report in Newsweek asserting that a military inquiry was expected to find that a Koran had been flushed down a toilet at the detention center.
"It scared out guys to death – they were told by a neighbour that someone had been flushing piranhas down the toilet.
Once the pipe has been flushed, the water supply can be restored.And not only water.
"It must have been flushed away by the torrential rain we had yesterday," says Gillham.
In Louisiana, oyster beds have been flushed with fresh water from the river after spillways were opened.
