Hard Site
n.— «Its members said they heard rumors about the area that came to be called “the Hard Site,” including verbal previews of the now famous pictures of naked inmates piled in sexually suggestive poses, stories about a mattress surrounded by chairs and a movie camera, and allegations involving anal sex.» —“Bay Area MPs say abuse rumors circulated at Baghdad prison” Mercury News (San Jose, California) May 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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