Posted on 04/14/2013 1:27:07 AM PDT by Pfesser
MIAMI (AP) -- Months of increased tension at the Guantanamo Bay prison boiled over into a clash between guards and detainees Saturday as the military closed a communal section of the facility and moved its inmates into single cells.
...Prisoners fought guards with makeshift weapons that included broomsticks and mop handles when troops arrived to move them out of a communal wing of the section of the prison known as Camp 6, said Navy Capt. Robert Durand, a military spokesman. Guards responded by firing four "less-than-lethal rounds," he said.
..."The ICRC continues to follow the current tensions and the hunger strike at Guantanamo very closely and with concern," spokesman Simon Schorno said. "If necessary, an ICRC team will in coming days return to Guantanamo to assess the situation of the detainees on hunger strike in view of this latest development."
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Amen!
another failed promise of der leader
Press was all over gitmo for prior administration,
now meh
Heard rumors the Ft. Hood Pyscho was down there locked up, what did he hold up in his wheelchair, a mop head?
It seems to me that since these detainees did not fit the Geneva Convention description of combat troops, but did fit the description of spies and saboteurs, we would be within our rights to “dispose” of them as such.
Guantanamo? Oresident closed that place in less than a year after he took office in 2009 - didn’t he?
There is no Guantanamo. We make aspirin and powdered milk for babies there now.
And I thought they were SOOOOO weak from their hunger strike!
Shoot every one of those knuckledraggers in the head and send their parts back to the turd-world hellholes from whence they came.
Guards responded by firing four “less-than-lethal rounds,” he said.
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The “less-than” part is problematic. Cull that herd.
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