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Guantanamo hunger strike prompts urgent Red Cross visit
Is it Ramadan already?The International Committee of the Red The ICRC says the doctor and another group member are flying to Guantanamo a week earlier than planned "because of the current tensions" there. A Pentagon spokesman says 31 of 166 detainees are now on hunger strike. The inmates - many of whom are being held without charge - are angry at the US failure to resolve their fate. Last week, more than 21 people at the US detention facility in Cuba were on hunger strike. The ICRC said on Wednesday that it had initially planned to send its team to Guantanamo on 1 April. "However, in an effort to better understand current tensions and the ongoing hunger strike, we have decided to start this visit one week earlier," ICRC spokesman Simon Schorno said. He added that "tensions at Guantanamo are certainly related, in our view, to the uncertainty that's prevailing on the future of the detainees". "We see a clear link between that and their emotional state." Other than being crazy, what other emotional state does a Jihadi have? Posted by: tipper 2013-03-27 |
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