There lies the fundamental difference with the Iraqi side, which is shackled by its fears.
As of Wednesday night, only one person — a man who was crushed by a boulder that rolled onto his clapboard house — had been killed in Jamaica, but storm's flash floods and mudslides threatened the island of roughly 2.7 million people, which is shackled by debt and a crumbling infrastructure and many of whose sprawling shantytowns are built on steep embankments.
Once a pure investment bank, it is now a financial conglomerate in which the original business is shackled to a lame brokerage outfit, a troubled mutual-fund unit and a credit-card division that is losing market share.
I know the scene in which Carrie Fischer, as Princess Leia*, is shackled to this big, slimy fucker, half-naked and clearly enslaved in what's become an iconic Halloween costume.
After three months, during which he was shackled and repeatedly accused of being an American spy, he was suddenly released – all the other prisoners were executed.
Their two-and-a-half-year ordeal has also left them with serious physical problems including knee and back pain - because of the positions in which they were shackled - and, in the case of Rhuhel Ahmed, permanent eye damage.
There is no question, however, about the method used on Machiavelli, the strappado — also known today as "Palestinian hanging" — which was responsible for the death of an Iraqi detainee in C.I.A. custody at Abu Ghraib in 2003: the prisoner was suspended by his arms, which had been shackled behind his back, and died of asphyxiation.
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service on Friday reported a net loss of $740 million in the third quarter, compared with a $1.9 billion loss in the previous quarter, a better-than-expected performance for the agency, which has been shackled by falling revenues and a Congressional mandate that requires it to annually pay billions of dollars into a health fund for future retirees.
Until obtaining a court order, Williams was forced to strip naked and undergo a body search before each of her visits with Shakur during which Shakur was shackled to a bed by both ankles.
But for the non-religious the best place to start is with an organisation which is not shackled to a list of absolute moral judgments, and which does not distinguish between people based on their faith, race, gender or status.
FP No.1 (in which the man was shackled to fixed object, e.g. a large wheel) was awarded to 60,210 cases, equivalent to one man in 50 (although in practice there were many repeat offenders).
