From: "Rich Gauszka" 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4245354.stm
Men in prison are five times more likely to commit suicide than those in
the general population, a Lancet online study has found.


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> 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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