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One in five Guantanamo Bay detainees is on hunger strike [chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!”.....]
Times Online ^

Posted on 01/14/2009 11:00:31 AM PST by Sub-Driver

One in five Guantanamo Bay detainees is on hunger strike Guantanamo Bay

(Roberto Schmidt/EPA)

33 detainees are being force-fed Tim Reid in Guantanamo Bay

Nearly a fifth of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike with the aim of attracting the attention of Barack Obama, military officials have told the Times, with most of them being force fed.

Of the 248 inmates inside the controversial US detention facility, 44 are refusing food, and 33 of those are receiving nutrition with tubes that are forced up their noses and into their stomachs.

On election night, according to one official, news of Mr Obama’s win somehow spread across the prison facility, even though no inmates had access to television that evening, and chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!” erupted throughout the complex.

It is the biggest hunger strike since the Spring of 2006, with the percentage of inmates now refusing food believed to be the second highest in the prison’s seven year history. Two inmates have been force fed without break since August 2005.

Human rights groups claim the total number of hunger strikers is higher. Gitanjali Gutierrez, a lawyer for the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights, says that more than 70 men held at the US Navy base in Cuba were refusing to eat. She cited reports from visiting lawyers for her estimate.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 01/14/2009 11:00:31 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!” erupted throughout the complex

Wonder why Brian Williams didn’t report THAT?


2 posted on 01/14/2009 11:01:51 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Guns don't kill people; abortion clinics do.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Jim, the Klingons are dying.” - McCoy


3 posted on 01/14/2009 11:01:55 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now, how do we get the other 4/5 to stop eating?


4 posted on 01/14/2009 11:02:13 AM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Sub-Driver

Fry up some bacon nearby and let the odor waft their way .. day in and day out as they starve themselves.


5 posted on 01/14/2009 11:02:17 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: Sub-Driver
On election night, according to one official, news of Mr Obama’s win somehow spread across the prison facility, even though no inmates had access to television that evening, and chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!” erupted throughout the complex.

A ringing endorsement if ever there was one!

6 posted on 01/14/2009 11:02:22 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Sub-Driver

They’ll gripe because the terrorists are being force-fed. But if they weren’t force-fed, the press would say we’re starving them to death. Win/win as I see it.


7 posted on 01/14/2009 11:02:36 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: Sub-Driver
chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!” erupted throughout the complex.

Now we've identified his support base....

8 posted on 01/14/2009 11:02:57 AM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: Red in Blue PA
chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!” erupted throughout the complex

Hope&Change ;-)

9 posted on 01/14/2009 11:03:09 AM PST by rhombus
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To: mgc1122

And put pork on the menu.


10 posted on 01/14/2009 11:03:20 AM PST by Niuhuru (Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
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To: Wil H

They think Islams U.S. representative will spring them.

They might be right.

What a mess.


11 posted on 01/14/2009 11:04:00 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Sub-Driver
Simple solution, let them starve. Goodbye to a problem where to let them loose in the US when Obama frees them.
12 posted on 01/14/2009 11:04:00 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

We are so screwed. :(


13 posted on 01/14/2009 11:04:59 AM PST by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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To: Sub-Driver
33 detainees are being force-fed Tim Reid in Guantanamo Bay

They are being force fed Tim Reid? I'd go on a hunger strike if that happened to me.

14 posted on 01/14/2009 11:05:37 AM PST by techcor (When Obama breaks his silence he says nothing.)
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To: Texas Fossil

They probably ARE right.

I can’t believe this. I will NEVER be able to believe 0 was elected.


15 posted on 01/14/2009 1:13:47 PM PST by txhurl (Obama's FIRST *real job* - POTUS)
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To: Sub-Driver

So don’t feed ‘em....


16 posted on 01/14/2009 1:17:07 PM PST by ElectricStrawberry (1/27th Infantry Wolfhounds...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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To: techcor

Terry Schiavo’s husband’s lawyer is in at the DOJ. These guys will be able to go peacefully soon.


17 posted on 01/14/2009 1:17:10 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: txflake

If I was the one force feeding then, the tube wouldn’t be forced up their nose, it would go up their @@@.


18 posted on 01/14/2009 1:17:29 PM PST by supermop (Somebody has to clean up the mess he will leave)
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To: techcor

“33 detainees are being force-fed Tim Reid in Guantanamo Bay”

Nothing like dining on a little Venus Fly Trap in the morning.


19 posted on 01/14/2009 1:17:39 PM PST by NewMexLurker
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To: mgc1122

“Fry up some bacon nearby and let the odor waft their way .. day in and day out as they starve themselves”.

...mmmmm, bacon. As G. Gordon Liddy said on 9/11...”we need to ram a pork sausage up their a%#”!


20 posted on 01/14/2009 1:20:02 PM PST by albie
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