Riot at Guantanamo.

[Rex Kickass]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/19/...D8HMULPG1.shtml

 

(AP) Prisoners wielding improvised weapons clashed with guards trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military said Friday.

 

The fight occurred Thursday in a medium-security section of the camp as guards were responding to the fourth attempted suicide that day at the detention center on the U.S. Navy base, said Cmdr. Robert Durand.

 

Detainees used fans, light fixtures and other improvised weapons to attack the guards as they entered a communal living area to stop a prisoner who was trying to hang himself, Durand said.

 

Earlier in the day, three detainees in another part of the prison attempted suicide by swallowing prescription medicine they had been hoarding.

 

The detainees who took part in the clash with guards were moved to higher-security sections.

 

Those who attempted suicide received medical treatment, the military said. Their names were not released.

 

The incidents occurred on the same day the military transferred 15 Saudi detainees to their country, leaving about 460 detainees at Guantanamo.

 

There have been 39 suicide attempts at Guantanamo since the prison opened in January 2002, the military said. At least 12 were by Juma'a Mohammed al-Dossary, a 32-year-old from Bahrain.

 

Guantanamo Bay holds detainees suspected of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

 

Gitmo detainees not interrogated.

 

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?ty...src=rss/topNews

 

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE (Reuters) - Only about one-fourth of the prisoners held at the Guantanamo naval base are interrogated regularly because there are not enough translators and interrogators to question them all, the U.S. admiral in charge of the detention operation said on Thursday.

 

Rear Adm. Harry Harris, who at the end of March took command of the military task force that runs the camp, said the 460 captives at Guantanamo in Cuba were dangerous men who still provide useful information about al Qaeda tactics, financing and safe houses.

 

But only those he described as senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders were routinely questioned by U.S. interrogators, he said.

 

"It's about around 25 percent of the population that we are actively interrogating," Harris told visiting journalists.

 

"If we had unlimited interrogators and translators then we could interrogate more. But we have limited resources so we have to focus that the best way we can, so we go after those detainees that have the largest intelligence value."

 

The rest are not ignored completely, he said. But asked if some prisoners might have gone years without being questioned, he replied, "I would think there are, but I just don't know."

[YASNY]

I heard that there are plans to repatriate 16 Saudi's back to Saudi Arabia. That very well could be the motive behind this attempted suicide. The treatment the get from the Saudi government would make Gitmo look like a country club.

[FlaSoxxJim]

A CNN report also suggested the suicide attempt was staged as a decoy to draw guards in to be attacked, so I'm not sure what the real deal is right now.

[Rex Kickass]

You think it might involve holding "people of interest" for years without interrogation? Regardless of what the riot in Gitmo was about, what's happening there is a national shame and against every ideal that this country is supposed to stand for or respect.

[FlaSoxxJim]

You think it might involve holding "people of interest" for years without interrogation? Regardless of what the riot in Gitmo was about, what's happening there is a national shame and against every ideal that this country is supposed to stand for or respect.

 

Agreed, absolutely and completely.

[samclemens]

You think it might involve holding "people of interest" for years without interrogation? Regardless of what the riot in Gitmo was about, what's happening there is a national shame and against every ideal that this country is supposed to stand for or respect.

 

you all obviously oppose it, but it is the view of our government (not just our administration) that holding those people indefinetly is legal. you all just let me know when a court opinion says that this practice is illegal. there is a reason why the supreme court refuses to hear an arguement on the matter- because they consider the issue resolved already.

[minors]

You think it might involve holding "people of interest" for years without interrogation? Regardless of what the riot in Gitmo was about, what's happening there is a national shame and against every ideal that this country is supposed to stand for or respect.

 

 

I totally agree that it a terrible practice but in the eyes of the law it is legal and just like some other practices that are morally terrible but legal they will still go on until a court decides to change it.

[samclemens]

I totally agree that it a terrible practice but in the eyes of the law it is legal and just like some other practices that are morally terrible but legal they will still go on until a court decides to change it.

 

exactly.

[Rex Kickass]

I totally agree that it a terrible practice but in the eyes of the law it is legal and just like some other practices that are morally terrible but legal they will still go on until a court decides to change it.

 

Or until we start electing public officials who feel that this kind of practice is unacceptable.