In this article in Monday's New York Times on training the French Foreign Legion in French Guiana lies what is probably the understatement of the year:
We don’t accept the hardened criminals anymore, the murderers or
rapists, so this makes our job easier,” said Capt. Samir Benykrelef,
the commander of Camp Szuts.
No kidding.
As for the sloppy editing - and inane comment - from the same article:
“This is where we come to forget why we’re stationed here,” said Andrey
Korivitsky, 28, a legionnaire from Belarus who resembles Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber.
No doubt if Korivitsky ever reads the article, he'll be certain to be thrilled to see himself likened physically to our nation's biggest mass murderer ever.
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