Bush in charge, Washington Post front page. Barry in charge, buried in Washington Post World Digest...A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials announced Tuesday. The Joint Task Force that runs the U.S. prison in Cuba said guards found Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Monday night.
His is the fifth apparent suicide at the Guantanamo prison, and the first in two years. President Obama plans to close the facility by January.
...so don't blame him, okay?
The Yemeni prisoner, also known as Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al-Hanashi, had been held without charge at Guantanamo since February 2002. Military records show that the alleged Taliban fighter was about 31.
...and now he's kinda dead.
Medical records previously released by the military showed that the prisoner's weight had dropped to about 86 pounds in December 2005 -- an indication that he may have joined a long-running hunger strike among prisoners. He weighed 124 pounds when he was taken to Guantanamo. Military officials have not said whether he was on a hunger strike.
Well, if so, it didn't work. But it will make it easier to ship him back to lovely Yemen.
A prison spokesman, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt, declined to discuss how the Yemeni man apparently committed suicide, or whether procedures have changed at the prison as a result of the apparent suicide.
Ummmmmm...seing as they found him last night, I kinda doubt it.
