From: "Mark" 

 So their motives aren't clear to you. They win then, just as they
planned, so let's bring them on over to the USA, read them their rights,
give them social security numbers, some spending money, and turn them
loose... 



"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> 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
>> news:448b626e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> 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
>>> news:448b6024$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>
>>>> "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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