From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"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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