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Guantanamo Inmate Makes 10th Suicide Attempt
Wow. Is that the record? Will that put him in Gitmo's Hall of Fame?Manama, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A Bahraini prisoner in the US prison camp Guantanamo Bay has tried to commit suicide for the tenth time, according to a letter from his lawyer released by the Justice department. Juma al-Dossary pulled stitches out of his arm and cut his bicep in his latest attempt, but lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan said that after immediate intervention by Guantanamo staff the 32-year-old is currently in a stable condition. The wrists, moron! Slit the wrists! And not across either! Al-Dossary has been held at Guantanamo since 2002 without ever being charged, the Dubai-based newspaper Gulf news reports. He told his lawyer in a meeting on 11 November that "he wanted to kill himself so that he could send a message to the world that conditions at Guantanamo are intolerable." Tell him to try harder. Nobody likes a quitter. Colangelo-Bryan said after the meeting: "Juma said the purpose of Guantanamo was to destroy detainees and he has been destroyed." Nah. He's still breathing, isn't he? Al-Dossary's lawyer said he had been in isolation for much of the last two years. However, the US military claims he has had regular contact with other prisoners. Medical officials at Guantanamo say he has tried to commit suicide at least nine times in the past. But, of course, the military lies. Terrorist's lawyers, however, are paragons of virtue. FBI officials say al-Dossary was an al-Qaeda recruiter nicknamed "The Closer" because of his role in recruiting Jihadists. "The Closer"? He can't even close himself. They say he first trained with al-Qaeda at the age of 16, spent time in Bosnia, and had previously been arrested in both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, before allegedly telling his friends after the 11 September bombings in 2001 that he was going to fight with the Taliban. I wonder if he was on the "Repentance Program" or "Cake or Die"? In August many of the 500 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay went on hunger strike over conditions and a lack of legal rights at the prison camp. One Bahraini inmate, Isa Almurbati, was being force fed by tube after losing a huge amount of weight and falling seriously ill as a result of the strike. Isa Almurbati: The Incredible Shrinking Jihadi. Posted by: tu3031 2005-12-20 |
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