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Home Front: WoT
Gitmo Detainee Apparently Kills Himself
2007-05-31
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. The military did not identify the detainee who died or describe the manner of death. There are about 80 detainees from Saudi Arabia held at Guantanamo.

Guards at the U.S. Naval Base in southeast Cuba found the detainee unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. military's Southern Command said in a statement. ``They tried to save his life but he was pronounced dead,'' said Mario Alvarez, a Miami-based spokesman for the command.

They usually don't, but there are exceptions. Pity.
It would be the fourth suicide at Guantanamo since the prison camp opened in January 2002. On June 10, 2006, two Saudi detainees and one Yemeni hanged themselves with sheets.
Posted by:Steve White

#20  I'm glad he's doing a job Americans don't seem to want to do.

Spot on, Jackal! Would that all jihadist American Muslims worked as hard.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-31 21:02  

#19  I'm glad he's doing a job Americans don't seem to want to do.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-05-31 19:20  

#18  dunt dunt dunt, another one bites the dust, dunt dunt dunt another one bites the dust, and another one .....
Posted by: Jan   2007-05-31 16:25  

#17  Cry me a river and fill it with herring!

"We've said all along that the guys are going to try to take their lives and that appears to be what happened here,"

Beats having them kill a bunch of us while they take their lives. These evil fucks are always so hell bent on dieing. I say, let 'em.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-31 15:27  

#16  Marc Falkoff: what a guy can do to butcher a name like THAT!!!!there are probably members of this audience that have often wanted to tell a laywer to Falkoff!
/tip your waitress
Posted by: USN. Ret.   2007-05-31 14:13  

#15  I think that means it was one of the muckidee mucks and he decided to check out. Good for him I hope he made a handout to the rest of the Jihadis.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-05-31 13:42  

#14  goodnight, sweet prince. I hope you and allan are having a hot time in theold town tonight.
Posted by: anymouse   2007-05-31 11:56  

#13  Probably just about to crack and spill the beans.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2007-05-31 11:36  

#12  And the news gets better...

A Saudi Arabian detainee who apparently committed suicide at Guantanamo Bay had been held at the prison camp reserved for the least compliant and most "high-value" inmates, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-05-31 10:46  

#11  It was obviously suicide - he shot himself in the back of the head six times.
Posted by: mojo   2007-05-31 10:23  

#10  Defense attorneys said the death was likely an act of desperation at a prison camp where detainees are denied access to U.S. civilian courts and isolated in their cells for up to 22 hours a day. "You have five and a half years of desperation there with no legal way out," said Michael Ratner, president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. "Sadly, it leads to people being so desperate they take their own lives."

Ya breakin my fuckin heart, counselor...

Marc Falkoff, who is part of a team of attorneys representing 17 men from Yemen, said the suicide should be expected given the conditions at Guantanamo.

So we have more to look forward to?

"We've said all along that the guys are going to try to take their lives and that appears to be what happened here," Falkoff said. "It's just incredibly sad and it wouldn't happen if these guys were just given their day in court."

Ya breakin my fuckin heart, counselor...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-05-31 09:13  

#9  Hey, can I have his Koran?
Posted by: The Mook in the Cell Next Door   2007-05-31 09:04  

#8  No, absolutely no, sympathy to be found here.
Posted by: Mac   2007-05-31 08:26  

#7  Boo F'N Hoo! Say Hi to Allan.
Posted by: doc   2007-05-31 08:09  

#6  The apparently apparently refers to the fact that no one has tried to pin it on a guard, or Bush. Yet.
Posted by: Bobby   2007-05-31 06:21  

#5  Gitmo Detainee Apparently Kills Himself

just guessing that he had issues with rich foods. a ded jehadi is the very best kind.
Posted by: RD   2007-05-31 01:03  

#4  More oxygen for the rest of us.
Posted by: ed   2007-05-31 01:00  

#3  Not really seeing a down side to this result.
Posted by: Scott R.   2007-05-31 00:52  

#2  79 to go, apparently.
Posted by: Captain Whirong9728   2007-05-31 00:09  

#1  ``They tried to save his life but he was pronounced dead,''

Ded, dayd, det
Posted by: Shipman   2007-05-31 00:02  

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