Killing Themselves Was Unnecessary But It Certainly Is a Good PR Move and an "Act of Asymmetrical Warfare"

Spinning Suicide

"Three men being held in the United States military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, killed themselves by hanging in their cells on Saturday. The Team Bush spin machine immediately swept into high gear," writes Marjorie Cohn.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206J.shtml

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"Killing Themselves Was Unnecessary. But It Certainly Is a Good PR Move."

The Bush administration stared down a new wave of international condemnation of Guantanamo yesterday, dismissing the suicides by three inmates of the prison camp as a "good PR move" on their part and an "act of asymmetrical warfare."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206K.shtml

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And the Oscar Goes To ...

"You can only be bemused by the title of the lady at the US State Department who called the suicides of three prisoners a 'good PR move to draw attention,'" writes William Fisher. "Her name is Colleen Graffy, and her title is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy. That's Public Diplomacy."

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061306J.shtml

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Outcry Over Suicides at Guantanamo

The deaths and the official commentary on the dead men's motives have inspired broad criticism. The fatalities also brought appeals for independent investigation of the detention process here as well as insistence that the prison be closed.

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