From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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
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>>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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