"What we have here is ... failure to communicate."
Posted on 08/31/2007 4:12:00 PM PDT by SmithL
"Mass disturbances" are up sharply at the Guantanamo Bay prison this year despite a security overhaul and the release of dozens of prisoners, according to a new U.S. military report.
A one-page report titled "Danger Inside the Wire" said there were 385 mass disturbances in the first six months of 2007 compared to 201 for all of 2006, an increase of more than 90 percent with half the year still to go.
The military declined to provide details about the incidents. A Guantanamo spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Ed Bush said the category includes assaults or "other acts" involving at least three detainees that were intended to disrupt operations at the detention center, where about 355 men remain held without charges on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.
The report also showed that several other disciplinary categories — including "forced cell extractions" and "assault with bodily fluids" — are on pace to match or exceed last year's totals despite the fact that there are fewer detainees and most now are kept under tighter security in the newer, more modern sections of the detention center in Cuba.
Military officials say the numbers show that detainees are still dangerous.
They "continue to wage war by employing various tactics ... to either harm the guard force or bring international attention upon themselves in order to obtain release and return to the fight," Army Col. Bruce Vargo, the commander of the Joint Detention Group at Guantanamo, told AP in an e-mail.
Bush said the "mass disturbance" category does not include the long-running hunger strike at the detention center.
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I don’t care.
ping
23 & 1/2-hour-a-day lockdown.
—they should have been shot upon capture in Afganistan, as international law permits—
Oh, well, as long as the good guys stay safe.
That would address most of this issue IMHO, and should be the policy for enemy combatants who are captured on the battlefield fighting as such irregulars.
“Yes, innocent men riot inside our prison twice a day...”
< /liberal gobledeegook >
Wouldn’t have this problem if we had summarily shot 99% of them in the field for being non-uniformed armed combatants. What I wouldn’t give to have our grandfathers in charge again.
Why should we care if they kill each other?
The source is AP, the same source reporting that the US fails to ship non-lethal, non-existent “ray gun” in spite of ground commander’s repeated requests. AP = All “Petutti”.
"What we have here is ... failure to communicate."
Appeasement doesn't work? Who knew?
Hmmm...
Don’t care.
And a water and hardtack diet. Vitamin fortified, of course. Wouldn't want any of those Jihadis to develop health problems.
New menu Pork Rinds.....and Ham........
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