Guantanamo inmates declare hunger strike

[realFedUp]

http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/story/2570646p-10...

Guantanamo inmates declare hunger strike

By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 9:34 am PDT Thursday, July 21, 2005

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some 50 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have declared they are on a hunger strike, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.
They went on strike three days ago, spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Some have already begun eating again, he said. The spokesman said he did not know why they went on strike and said the health of the striking detainees is being monitored.

The Pentagon's version of this incident contrasted somewhat from the accounts of two Afghans released from the facility for terrorist suspects earlier this week. On Wednesday, they claimed that more than about 180 Afghans were on a hunger strike to protest alleged mistreatment at the facility at a U.S. military base in Cuba.

Habir Russol and Moheb Ullah Borekzai, who said they left the prison camp on Cuba on Monday and were flown to Afghanistan before being freed, said they did not participate in the hunger strike. They did not say how they knew others were refusing to eat.
Russol said 180 Afghan prisoners "are not eating or drinking." He and Borekzai estimated the men were in the 14th or 15th day of their fast.

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[MadisonProgressive]

1. What? No more glazed chicken? They must be desperate!

[mike923]

3. At least it will be cheaper now.*

[virgdem]

8. And what about Noodles Jefferson? No more Noodles? argggh

[Pachamama]

16. But...but....they are giving up Ice Cream?

[judy]

2. They are truly awful people, these enemy combatants...

Not only they hate our freedoms, but they also hate our delicious food!

[realFedUp]

4. maybe it's the heat....

tends to spoil things.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I will be...

Praying for them. What is being done to them is very wrong.

[OKNancy]

6. Interesting

they denied it yesterday when a released Afghan said as much.

[realFedUp]

7. Who are you going to believe?

Who do you trust?

It gets bad when you believe the incarcerated
over the prison owners.

[Inland]

9. But, but, but, what could they want besides being well fed and a Koran?

For people being imprisoned forever incommunicado, they haven't a complaint in the world!

[damntexdem]

10. I guess all that 'gourmet' food just isn't enough for them.

They'd rather have respect and an absence of torture, if not freedom.

[tuvor]

11. I'm surprised this thread died so quickly.

Shouldn't we be at least trying to publicize this story?

Recommended.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. I knew it would eventually come to this.

Gitmo was ill conceived and executed. They don't have any idea what they are doing.

[goforit]

13. OMG!!.Their souls are very strong.....What will the Christian right do

[dArKeR]

14. Why does it take Taipei Times to publish their pic? Is our media that

incompetent or corrupt?


Former prisoners at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Moheb Ullah Borekzai, left, and Habir Russol, right, get out of the car that took them to their release ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday. The two Afghans claimed that about 180 other Afghans held at the detention facility were on a hunger strike to protest alleged mistreatment and to push for their release.
PHOTO: AP
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/photo/2005/07/22/...

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/...

[snot]

15. Here's a thread re- new abuse photos & video just released

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...