Guantanamo detainee near death

[Lone_Star_Dem]

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A Sudanese journalist sent to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002 reportedly is close to death as his hunger strike surpasses 250 days.

A medical report by U.S. and British psychiatrists said there is strong evidence that Sami al-Haj has given up his fight for life, a condition doctors call “passive suicide,” the British newspaper The Independent said Thursday.

The al-Jazeera journalist, captured in Afghanistan six years ago, began the hunger strike to protest his detention without or trial.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/13/guantanamo_detainee_near_death/4807/