There's no hope in Guantanamo
CounterPunch
by Nicole Colson
06/16/06
Three detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, took their own lives in early June. But as far as the U.S. government is concerned, their suicides were an act of aggression against the U.S. 'They are smart, they are creative, they are committed,' Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the commander at Guantanamo, said of detainees following the suicides. 'They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.' ... 'There is no hope in Guantanamo,' Shafiq Rasul, a British man released from Guantanamo who went a hunger strike while behind bars to protest beatings, told the Associated Press. 'The only thing that goes through your mind day after day is how to get justice or how to kill yourself. It is the despair -- not the thought of martyrdom -- that consumes you there'...
https://www.counterpunch.org/colson06162006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
by Nicole Colson
06/16/06
Three detainees at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, took their own lives in early June. But as far as the U.S. government is concerned, their suicides were an act of aggression against the U.S. 'They are smart, they are creative, they are committed,' Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., the commander at Guantanamo, said of detainees following the suicides. 'They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.' ... 'There is no hope in Guantanamo,' Shafiq Rasul, a British man released from Guantanamo who went a hunger strike while behind bars to protest beatings, told the Associated Press. 'The only thing that goes through your mind day after day is how to get justice or how to kill yourself. It is the despair -- not the thought of martyrdom -- that consumes you there'...
https://www.counterpunch.org/colson06162006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
rudkla - 19. Jun, 14:14
