I always wonder what happened to this soldier who was stationed at Guantanamo

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http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/13/news/adna-gitmo13

Mystery Surrounds Soldier's Disappearance in Guantanamo

By Paisley Dodds
October 13, 2002

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Foraker was charged with transporting and guarding hundreds of suspected terrorists at this outpost, but he wasn't without his phobias.

He was scared of heights and the ocean, but since he vanished more than two weeks ago, the most plausible explanation for his disappearance has been that he climbed down a cliff and drowned.

"I'm not buying that," said his mother, Ann Foraker, 58, speaking by telephone last week from the home of her son and daughter-in-law in Logan, Ohio.

Foraker's wallet, military ID, and civilian shorts and T-shirt were found folded and stuck in a crevasse outside the Camp America barracks, just yards from Camp Delta, where 598 detainees accused of links to the Taliban or Al Qaeda are being held. Nearby, 20-foot cliffs overlook the Caribbean Sea.

"He wouldn't have left his ID," his mother said. "He worked too hard to become sergeant and knew leaving the ID could cost him his stripes."

Foraker, 31, was last seen about 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 24 -- his day off -- when he picked up a flashlight from his quarters and vanished into the night.

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/news/soldier-disappearance-mystery.htm

November 6, 2002
THE NATION

U.S. Soldier's Disappearance Surrounded by Mystery

The Pentagon says a Guantanamo Bay guard died accidentally. His family is skeptical.

By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer

<snip>But no body has been found, and the Army's initial reluctance to let Foraker's wife visit the base -- and his family's knowledge of Ryan -- make them suspicious of the official explanation.

Carl J. Foraker believes his son is still alive, that he came upon something "he was not supposed to see" on the base, and now is being held incommunicado. "I've always heard how secure it is down there, but evidently it's not, or they would find my son," he said.

His wife theorizes he might have been abducted. "He was due to come home in mid-November," said Angela Foraker of Logan, Ohio. "I don't believe he would have done anything stupid to jeopardize coming home."