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Club Fed prisoners hunger striking
2002-02-28
  • Incensed that two guards stripped a detainee of his turban during prayer, nearly two-thirds of the prisoners captured in the Afghan war refused lunch Thursday and chanted "God is great" in Arabic in their first mass protest since arriving at the base. In addition, some detainees pushed sheets, blankets, sleeping mats and other items through the small openings in the chain-link walls of their cells in protest, Marine Maj. Stephen Cox, the detention mission spokesman, said.

    Thursday night, Brig. Gen. Mike Lehnert, the Marine general running the detention mission, used the camp loudspeaker to tell inmates they would be allowed to wear turbans. Cox said, "We will reserve the right to inspect (turbans) at any time." Afterward, reporters could see several detainees wearing turbans fashioned from white bed sheets. Eighty-eight detainees refused their evening meal Thursday night even after Lehnert's address, Cox said.
    Damn. That's low, even for American imperialists. You can't be a proper wild-eyed religious lunatic without a turban.

    Mmmm. This sandwich sure is good. Sure you wouldn't like some?
    Why haven't the bed sheets at Camp Gitmo already been decorated with some suitable, extremely-offensive-to-Islamist icon or graffito? Why the hell are the sheets white, of all colors? What good has the cultural sensitivity training done for the U.S. forces running the camp?
    Posted by Anonymous 3/10/2002 3:54:38 PM
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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