From: "Mark" 

Seems pretty obvious to me. They (the prisoners) know that there is a lot
of noise out there about how Gitmo should be closed, they know further that
a few suicides will help the cause of those that want it closed, so they do
it -- not as glorious as blowing up themselves and a bunch of innocent
bystanders in a market somewhere, but still contributes to the cause of
defeating the west.


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> The Admiral really needed to go into detail after a statement like that
> otherwise he starts looking like the military equivalent of Ann Coulter.
>
>
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:448b5bdd$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>I would guess depression due to indefinite incarceration rather than an
>>>'act of warfare'. I wonder of the Adm Harris gave that explanation with a
>>>straight face
>>>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060610/ts_nm/security_guantanamo_dc_7
>>>
>>> Three foreign prisoners were found dead on Saturday after hanging
>>> themselves with clothing and bedsheets in the first deaths at the U.S.
>>> naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since the prison opened in January
>>> 2002, U.S. defense officials said.
>>>
>>> Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, commander of Guantanamo, told a news
>>> conference the suicides were an act of warfare.
>>>
>>> "They are smart. They are creative, they are committed.
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," Harris said.
>>>
>>> Facing indefinite detention with none of the rights afforded formal
>>> prisoners of war or criminal suspects in the U.S. justice system, dozens
>>> of the detainees have undertaken hunger strikes and attempted suicide.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That is an interesting viewpoint. Would be nice to see an explanation of
>> what he meant.
>>
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