CNN: Three commit suicide at Guantanamo

[kpete]

Three commit suicide at Guantanamo

Saturday, June 10, 2006
? WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three detainees at Guantanamo Bay committed suicide in what apparently was a joint pact to protest the U.S. military prison that holds suspected terrorists, a senior administration official said Saturday.

It was not immediately clear when the inmates died. The United States is holding about 460 men at the Cuban facility on suspicion of links to al Qaeda and the Taliban.

It also was not clear whether the suicides were connected to a violent clash last month between detainees and military guards at Guantanamo.

The Pentagon scheduled a briefing for later Saturday.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/10/guantanamo.suicides.ap/index.html

[OhioChick]

1. Weren't quite a few

on a hunger strike? I would tend to wonder if they had access to anything that could be used to commit suicide.....they typically don't, do they?

[DeBunk]

2. Soooo what do you think Muslim hell is like.....

Probably in the running for being as bad as gitmo itself?

[Swamp Rat]

7. A better place than where Bushler and his supporters are going.

Especially chicken shit freepers who should be in Iraq. :)

[ray of light]

3. I'm not sure but I thought it was 85 on hunger strikes being force fed.

[robinlynne]

4. I would think not.

[bigtree]

5. The Prisoner

STILL let my tyrants know, I am not doom'd to wear
Year after year in gloom and desolate despair;
A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

He comes with Western winds, with evening's wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars:
Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire,
And visions rise, and change, that kill me with desire.

Desire for nothing known in my maturer years,
When Joy grew mad with awe, at counting future tears:
When, if my spirit's sky was full of flashes warm,
I knew not whence they came, from sun or thunder-storm.

But first, a hush of peace—a soundless calm descends;
The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends.
Mute music soothes my breast—unutter'd harmony
That I could never dream, till Earth was lost to me.

Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels;
Its wings are almost free—its home, its harbour found,
Measuring the gulf, it stoops, and dares the final bound.

O dreadful is the check—intense the agony—
When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;
When the pulse begins to throb—the brain to think again—
The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.

Yet I would lose no sting, would wish no torture less;
The more that anguish racks, the earlier it will bless;
And robed in fires of hell, or bright with heavenly shine,
If it but herald Death, the vision is divine.

-- Emily Brontë

[theHandpuppet]

6. You know they waited 'til the weekend to release this news

Bastards.

This deserves a K&R!!!!!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Some people just don't fit into the resort atmosphere.

Or, enjoy the entertaining games of the playful "fratboys".

But, I'm sure the military will "investigate" thoroughly and "sincere regret" will be expressed over the loss of life.

[zonmoy]

9. DId the commit suicide

or were they suicided because even with rigged courts the cabal couldnt convict them of anything.