Posted on 11/17/2005 7:15:06 AM PST by Airborne1986
A hunger strike has left at least one detainee in danger of dying. Pentagon officials are struggling to control the protest—and the possible global outcry over any death.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek Updated: 7:06 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2005 Nov. 16, 2005 - A Guantanamo detainee who has engaged in a three-month hunger strike to protest his treatment is so “severely malnourished” that he may be “in significant danger of dying,” according to an outside doctor who has reviewed the prisoner’s recent medical records.
The prospect that a Guantanamo detainee may starve himself to death—and potentially provoke an international outcry—has raised concerns among some Defense Department officials as they wrestle with how to contain an inmate protest that has proven more intractable than they anticipated.
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However, Thomas Wilner, a lawyer for Fawzi Al Odah, a Kuwaiti detainee who has been refusing food since Aug. 9 and who has been force fed through a nasal tube since early September, said he feared his client would not survive. “We’re concerned [Al Odah] is dying, it’s as simple as that,” said Wilner. The attorney said that when he visited the detainee at Guantanamo last week, the 27-year-old was so emaciated, with bones showing through his face, that “he looked like somebody you see in pictures from the Sudan or of people walking out of the concentration camps.”
The desperation of some of those at Guantanamo was underscored earlier this month when the lawyer for another detainee walked into a cell to visit his client, Jamah Dossari, and found him hanging unconscious from a noose tied to the ceiling and a pool of blood on the floor from a gash in his right arm. The noose was cut and the suicide attempt—one of 36 that have taken place at the camp—was thwarted.
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Why do we care if they commit suicide? As long as they don't do it in public...
"Why do we care if they commit suicide?"
DOD is overthinking the problem. Nobody who matters could care less about these guys offing themselves. The liberals and appeasers will crap on us either way.
Offer them a ham sandwich.
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. If they don't want to eat, so be it. Thanks for playing jihad...no virgins for you!
"More Problems at Gitmo"
so the jihadi's are not eating ?? in danger of dying ?? ... wheres the problem ?? if anything this is a positive development.. thats less tax payer money being spent.
They could, of course, just open the gates at Gitmo and let the "detainees" go into the paradise of Cubr. I bet they would like that.
"A hunger strike has left at least one detainee in danger of dying."
I can't bring myself to care. MORE of them should do that.
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