Former Guantanamo detainees recall despair (sniff...)

yahoo.com ^ | Sun Jun 11, 2006 | PAISLEY DODDS

[presidio9]

Shafiq Rasul, Left, Ruhal Ahmed, Centre, and Asif Iqbal, who are the three former Guantanamo Bay detainees known collectively as the 'Tipton Three', in London Friday June 9, 2006. The first reported suicides at Guantanamo Bay come Sunday June 11, 2006, before the U.S. premier of the 'Road to Guantanamo,' a movie that traces the footsteps of the three British youths known as the 'Tipton Three', whose trip to Pakistan for a wedding ends at the desolate military outpost at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.(AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)

[P-40]

Do they always look like an advertisment for a freak show?

[stylin19a]

There is no hope in Guantanamo. The only thing that goes through your mind day after day is how to get justice or how to kill yourself," said Shafiq Rasul, 29, who waged a hunger strike while at the camp to protest alleged beatings.

the irony of this sttement is breathtaking.

[Lurking in Kansas]

The only thing that goes through your mind day after day is how to get justice or how to kill yourself,

I'd like to tell you what I'd like to go through your head, but it'd be deleted by the moderator.

[presidio9]

Oh, the:

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[areafiftyone]

Jeeze they don't look like they suffered much!

[stylin19a]

so is my spelling
sttement=statement

[RandallFlagg]

The only thing that goes through your mind day after day is how to get justice or how to kill yourself,

Sounds like they've been frequenting DU.

[Lurking in Kansas]

PS

This is so much BS. What is inferred is that they just were going to a wedding, ended up captured, and sent to Gitmo. Innocent all.

*spits*

[pikachu]

We must have the old The Ghost and Mrs. Muir tapes to give them some Hope (Lang)!!

[Kakaze]

I don't see the effects of starvation or a hunger strike on any of the three of them.

In fact they look as if they are ready to continue their jihad.

[Fintan]

PAISLEY DODDS???????????????????

[Hydroshock]

When I heard over the weekend that some had killed themselves out of despair. My first thought was can I go there and pass out rope.

[prairiebreeze]

FOFL!

[quadrant]

Justice is getting what you deserve. Locking these men up at Gitmo was what they deserved.
If Islam is a religion of peace - as is claimed - then these men should have used their incarceration to reflect on the truths to their faith.
Lets remember that many US pilots faced long years of incarceration in Vietcong and North Vietnamese prisons. I don't recall reading that any of them attempted suicide.

[go-ken-go]

I imagine that being in a prison situation would bring out feelings of despair. Too bad for them. We're supposed to feel particularly sorry for them???

[Valin]

There is no hope in Guantanamo

Works for me. Don't go around blowing people up and you don't have to worry about it.

[Valin]

Yes. Next question. :-)

[BenLurkin]

They let those creeps out?

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

In the princple of Innocent until proen guilty, I am willing to suspend my capacity to reason and assume one or two of these freaks was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I agree with Bush that it is probably time to start figuring out who can be sent home and who just plane cannot. I am guessing the vast majority fall into the category of the latter, but for the one or two who are just run of the mill islamofacists and not necessarily hell-bent jihadis, I can imagine they haven't been enjoying themselves.