Outcry Over Suicides at Guantanamo

Outcry Over Suicides at Guantanamo
By Carol J. Williams
The Los Angeles Times

Tuesday 13 June 2006

Autopsy analysis is still continuing on the three hanged men. Human rights groups and U.S. allies say the prison should be closed.

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - U.S. military pathologists on Monday examined and tested clinical data obtained from autopsies of three prisoners who were found hanged here Saturday, while human rights advocates warned of the potential for more suicides by prisoners with little hope of release or legal recourse.

Officials of the military prison and interrogation network were reviewing detention procedures to determine what changes might be necessary to avert further suicide attempts and to modify guard routines to prevent prisoners from knowing when they might be observed, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, spokesman for the prison and interrogation compound.

Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris' characterization of the suicides as acts of "asymmetrical warfare" and a State Department official's assertion that the first deaths among Guantanamo inmates were "a good PR move" brought renewed outrage in the Muslim world as well as among U.S. allies in Europe.

But Durand said the admiral in command of the detention operations here stood by his view that the deaths "were not acts of despair but coordinated efforts by three committed combatants."

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As I've said I don't know why we chose to incarcerate the Moon-Bats at GITMO. I would have tortured them for any Intel they might have had and then shot them out of hand. However is puzzles me why the Left and their usual mob of unwashed ner-do-wells are so concerned about the GITMO Moon-Bats? It would instead behove the Left to worry about the fine young men and women who are daily engaged in defending this nation from the very people that the Left is so concerned about.

I see now where the EU is calling for the closing of the GITMO prisoner camp. Fine we'll shoot all the inmates and close the camp, end of story, end of Moon-Bats.