home
Three Suicides At Guantanamo | 44 comments (44 topical)
Re: Three Suicides At Guantanamo (none / 0) (#11)
by scribe on Sat Jun 10, 2006 at 03:19:40 PM EST
Later reports on CNN are to the effect that the military and WH are calling the suicides "acts of war". Highly ironic, that in death they're willing to give these guys, whomever they were, the dignity of calling them soldiers, while they denied them the protections and rights under the Geneva Conventions (or civilian courts) during life. Also, the reports are saying they made nooses from sheets and clothes and managed to kill themselves under their guards' noses. You'd think that, when (1) there are readily available paper clothes and sheets designed for prison and mental institutional use, i.e. to tear when wound to be used as rope or nooses, and (2) a history of suicide attempts, and (3) every county jail does (or should) have these for issue to suicide-risk (i.e., solitary or crazy) prisoners, and (4) every county jail has an SOP for suicidal inmates, and (5) these particular prisoners were, like all the GITMO prisoners, closely watched by guards, there would be no way one would kill himself (let alone three, at the same time). Frankly, it's not credible that the vaunted military is so inept.

Three Suicides At Guantanamo | 44 comments (44 topical)

  • Premium Ads

  • Blog Ads

  • Contribute To TalkLeft

    donate to TalkLeft