In fact,one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young women - the Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772 - is still in operation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Mohammed,for example, was subject to a simulated drowning technique known as water boarding 183 times.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Ismail agrees. He says the war on terror in Indonesia is a war of ideas, and over the past decade, a radical minority within JI using Islamic boarding schools and the Internet, has been successful at spreading its message.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

The Bush administration strenuously defended so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" like sleep deprivation to obtain information from detainees, and admitted to harsher treatment, like the simulated drowning technique called water boarding, that was used in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

"We reacted very quickly and tried to prevent these characters from boarding on to the ship, but unfortunately by the time we reacted, some of them had already succeeded and accessed the ship and had even managed to reach the cabin crew area,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.26