Does anyone know how the Gitmo suicides happened?

[unpossibles]

Hanging, I assumed, but just curious. I wonder if they "suicided" themselves or had help with some... uh... hazing pranks or what.

<half serious conspiracy conjecture> it would be most ironic if they were killed by the same people who cried "Asymmetrical Warfare! </conjecture> I don't necessarily believe this, but ... well, since this maladministration has lied about pretty much EVERYTHING, I find that I believe them less and less every day.

Wonder if they're familiar with The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

[OhioChick]

1. I heard "bedsheets" from the M$M. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

2. Here you go, another shame for the US.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1800218,00.html

Caps are mine for emphasis.

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According to Guantanamo's rules, a six-person team of military police should have been patrolling constantly, and as usual the bright neon lights stayed on. A guard should have passed each detainee's cell EVERY THIRTY SECONDS. 'From the landing, you can see right into every cell,' said Rasul. 'They don't have doors, just gates made from wide-spaced mesh. There's no privacy. If you hang up a towel because you want to go to the toilet, they make you take it down.'

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The high degree of surveillance HAS FOILED DOZENS of previous attempts by prisoners to take their own lives. 'It happened in front of me several times. The soldiers would see what was happening and they were in the cell in seconds,' Rasul said. But somehow, in circumstances that the Pentagon has succeeded in keeping totally obscure, late on Friday, 9 June, three detainees, all weak and emaciated after months on hunger strike and being force-fed, managed to tease bedsheets through their cells' mesh walls, tie them into nooses and hang themselves. With the cells little taller than the height of a man, they stood NO CHANCE of breaking their necks: THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD DIE WAS SLOWLY, by hypoxia.


'That would take at least FOUR OR FIVE MINUTES, PROBABLY LONGER', said Dr David Nicholl, consultant neurologist at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, who has been co-ordinating international opposition to Guantanamo by physicians. 'It's very difficult to see how, if the landing was being properly patrolled, they could have managed to accomplish it.'

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[unpossibles]

3. hm.

I suppose if they held their legs up and jumped, maybe they could have broken their necks, but who knows.

Thanks for the info.

So, in keeping with the psychological projection generally employed by the NeoCons, is it ridiculous of me to suspect, even a little, that this may have been Asymmetrical Warfare of our own, not the prisoners?

[Mnemosyne]

4. Suspicion is always a good idea with the neocons.

Always. :grr:

You are welcome unpossibles.