Posted on 09/18/2005 3:21:49 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
Washington, Sept 18 - A hunger strike at the US military's prison camp at Guantanamo bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's effort to manage hundreds of terrorism suspects, the New York Times reported Sunday.
Quoting unnamed lawyers and officials, the newspaper said as many as 200 prisoners -- more than a third of the camp's population -- have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and prolonged confinement without trial.
While military officials put the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened, are being kept at the camp's hospital and fed through nasal tubes and sometimes given fluids intraven ously, the report said.
The military authorities were so concerned about ending a previous strike this summer that they allowed the establishment of a six-member prisoners' grievance committee, said the Times.
But the committee was quickly disbanded.
The reports quotes major Jeffrey Weir, a spokesman at the base, as saying the prisoners who are being fed at the hospital are generally not strapped to their beds or gurneys but are in handcuffs and leg restraints.
A 21st prisoner at the hospital is voluntarily accepting liquid food, the report said.
Major Weir said the prisoners usually accept the nasal tubes passively because they know they will be restrained and fed forcibly if necessary, the paper reported.
The paper said one law enforcement official who has been fully briefed on the events said senior military officials had grown increasingly worried about their ability to control the situation.
A senior military official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the situation as greatly troublesome for the camp's authorities and said they had tried several ways to end the hunger strike, without success, the Times reported.
Order the body bags and pig skin toe tags.
Let these morons starve them selves to death..Be less headache for us..I have a better idea take them to Iraq and Afghanistan and let those people kill their sorry butts...
Good! We need extra food for Katrina relief.
Throw a pack of pack of polish sausage over the fence once a day and let them play catch as catch can.
I wonder why we are still coddling these people. Pretty easy to go on a hunger strike if you know you're going to be force fed anyway. Look for Teddy, the wale, to start accusing GWB of torture again.
Force feed 'em raw bacon, LOL.
Let 'em starve.
Like they do on Deadwood, just feed them to the chinamans pigs.
get a pack of buzzards to patrol the hallway and let the scum watch the buzzards start drooling
If they starve they can't fight.
If they die, feed 'em to the sharks.
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Fantastic !!
Let them eat 'pork'.
That much more food and water for the rest of us
I've often wondered why hunger strikes by criminals should be such a big deal. It's not like we're starving them. If they want to waste away, more power to them.
Pork for everyone who doesn't want to eat. Or, let 'em starve, as it's their fondest wish. I doubt it's out of control, however.
If they die...feed them to each other. >B-)
Just a little dark humor..not serious.
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