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Clashes at Guantanamo over hunger strike prisoners
2013-04-14
Prisoners and guards have clashed at Guantanamo Bay as authorities moved inmates, many of whom are on hunger strike, out of communal cellblocks.
Are we still arguing about these guys? We're required to provide food, not force them to eat it. If they don't eat that is their problem.
The move came after detainees covered surveillance cameras and windows, a US Army spokesman said. He said some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and in response "four less-than-lethal rounds" were fired.
Less than lethal but they hurt like hell...
The Pentagon says 43 prisoners are on hunger strike, but lawyers for the detainees say the number is higher. Almost a dozen are being force-fed, according to military officials.
That's a dozen too many...
There were no "serious injuries to guards or detainees" in Saturday's clashes, according to Capt Robert Durand of the US military's Southern Command.

"I know for sure that one detainee was hit but the injuries were minor, just some bruises," another spokesman, Col Greg Julian, told the Associated Press.

Lawyers for some of the detainees condemned the camp authorities' actions. Carlos Warner, who represents several detainees, told AP that "the military is escalating the conflict".
That's generally what a military does when you don't cooperate, Carlos...
Posted by:tipper

#6  As a humanitarian gesture, send them to Bloomberg's villa and he can entertain them, and they him.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-04-14 18:37  

#5  ouch, Pappy
Posted by: Frank G   2013-04-14 14:52  

#4  Whoa!
Turbo-Kelvinator
:)
Posted by: Shipman   2013-04-14 13:36  

#3  Send them to Indio - they can swim in the irrigation canals and grow up to be frustrated novelists enamored with their own prose.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-04-14 12:59  

#2  You can offer the food every day...good food, healthy , nutritious, that sort of thing. ( serve it with a plastic spoon, of course )

WHETHER they decide to eat it is their choice. All you have to do is provide it ( totally halal, of course ).

Benign neglect and starvation, I never thought of that? It would solve the problem though. Or we could move the prison to San Francisco...Oakland could handle it? Put a microchip in every one of the detainees ( is that the right PC word for them) and make it so we can track them if they somehow "escape into the California population. And then we let the people of California handle catching them again. Or we could put them on working reform and open detention in Hollywood. Let them do light work jobs for Beverly Hills volunteers, nothing too strenuous.
We should be tolerant and forgiving and not stereotype, after all. I hear they eat good in Hollywood and a lot of people wear sun glasses and wear Guccis.
Don't you wish you lived in California? Nice and sunny like Guantanamo too.
Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823   2013-04-14 05:10  

#1  Almost a dozen are being force-fed, according to military officials.

I've got a budget cutting idea.
Posted by: Skidmark   2013-04-14 05:04  

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