Saudi prisoner kills self at Guantanamo, U.S. says

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Saudi prisoner kills self at Guantanamo, U.S. says

By Jane Sutton
Reuters
Wednesday, May 30, 2007; 7:39 PM

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian prisoner died of an apparent
suicide at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Wednesday, the U.S.
military said.

"The detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell
by guards. The detainee was pronounced dead by a physician
after all lifesaving measures had been exhausted," the U.S. Southern
Command in Miami said in a statement.

The military did not indicate how the prisoner died.

He is the fourth detainee to die of apparent suicide at the
detention camp, which opened in January 2002 and holds about 380
foreign terrorist suspects on the U.S. naval base in southeastern
Cuba.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053002126.html

[PSPS]

1. Firm erections all around at the white house tonight!

[saigon68]

7. LOL

The Chimp is ready for release

[uppityperson]

2. k&r

[Up2Late]

3. I like the BBC News, more skeptical headline: Guantanamo Saudi 'kills himself'

I wonder if the White House will try to force them to change it?

Thursday, 31 May 2007, 01:11 GMT 02:11 UK

Guantanamo Saudi 'kills himself'

A Saudi Arabian prisoner has died in an apparent suicide at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the US military has said.

A statement by the US Southern Command said the inmate was found unresponsive and not breathing by guards, and attempts to revive him failed.

Two Saudis and a Yemeni prisoner were found hanged in an apparent suicide at the camp in June last year.

There are about 380 prisoners at the camp, some held for five years.

(more at link) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6706635.stm>

[Heidi]

4. Kick.

:kick:

[Solly Mack]

5. Not suicide - it's "asymmetric warfare" didn't you know?

"The commander of the controversial Guantanamo Bay internment camp has said that the suicide of three inmates was "an act of warfare" against America."

snip

"They have no regard to life, neither ours nor their own. And I believe this was not an act of desperation, rather an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us."

[Judi Lynn]

6. How can ANYONE become that twisted that he thinks people could buy

the old "asymmetric warfare" charge? It's so wrong it seems filthy. A moral man wouldn't mangle the truth like that.

http://content.answers.com.nyud.net:8090/main/content/wp/en/thumb/5/56/180px-AdmiralHarryHarris.JPG

Old "asymmetric warfare" spotter,
Rear Admiral Harry Harris.