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US steps up efforts to break Guantánamo hunger strike
Guardian, UK ^ | June 22, 2013 | Mark Townsend

Posted on 06/22/2013 6:30:28 AM PDT by Innovative

Shaker Aamer, last British resident held in camp, tells of harsh regime to break strikers' resistance

Speaking last week from the camp in Cuba, exactly four months after he joined the hunger strike, Aamer said: "The administration is getting ever more angry and doing everything they can to break our hunger strike. Honestly, I wish I was dead."

Although the military initially denied that there was a hunger strike inside Guantanámo, it now concedes that, of the 166 detainees, 104 are on hunger strike and 44 are being force-fed.

Aamer describes his daily diet at Guantánamo as a cup of tea or two each day with a low-calorie sweetener and occasionally an Ocean Spray powder mix that has 10 calories – enough to give an energy boost.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; hungerstrike; terrorists; waronterror
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To: Innovative

Foodboard’em.


21 posted on 06/22/2013 7:17:53 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Still Thinking

I agree. Free will. If they want to stop eating, it is their choice. As long as their usual meal is provided it is up to the detainees to eat.

If hunger strikes were ignored, they would go away as a tool of protest. They only continue to use it because too many outsiders feel sympathy. I don’t fall in that group.


22 posted on 06/22/2013 7:19:22 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: A Navy Vet

I once worked on a roof where there was a Thai restaurant on the ground sending out some wonderful ‘flavors.’ I would torture them with that smell.


23 posted on 06/22/2013 7:19:37 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Innovative

Set up dinners in front of the cells and let them watch the guards eat three squares a day.


24 posted on 06/22/2013 7:27:22 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Innovative

Let them no eat. It is the best way to break it.


25 posted on 06/22/2013 7:31:22 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Innovative
let me get this straight, Terri Schiavo starved to death by the state, goathumpers force fed... go figure
26 posted on 06/22/2013 7:36:32 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

Well, you see...she was a CHRISTIAN...and...


27 posted on 06/22/2013 7:39:26 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: rlmorel
of course... what WAS i thinking???
28 posted on 06/22/2013 7:49:20 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: moovova

“Foodboard’em.”

Pot smoke in the ventilation system.


29 posted on 06/22/2013 9:37:17 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Innovative

Since they seem intent on starving themselves to death, why not just euthanize them.


30 posted on 06/22/2013 9:44:22 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: Still Thinking
Why don't we just provide them with their usual meal and if they don't eat them, that's their problem.

That was my question as well.

It's thinking like you guys advocate that will cause the "politically correct" idiots to have a nervous breakdown.

We can only hope that's the case. Rock On!

31 posted on 06/22/2013 9:54:56 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Innovative
2. Why are we trying to save them, they would only do us a favor by starving themselves to death.

When a fool, a scum bag, and a terrorist wants to kill himself, it is nice to step aside and watch him do it. I hope they are successful at offing themselves.

32 posted on 06/22/2013 10:06:25 AM PDT by Mark17 (My heart is in the Philippines, and soon I will be too.)
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To: Innovative
"Honestly, I wish I was dead."

Whatta ya know, me and Aamer agree on something.

5.56mm

33 posted on 06/22/2013 10:19:34 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Innovative

“Speaking last week from the camp in Cuba, exactly four months after he joined the hunger strike, Aamer said: “The administration is getting ever more angry and doing everything they can to break our hunger strike. Honestly, I wish I was dead.”

so do we


34 posted on 06/22/2013 10:23:24 AM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: Innovative
... exactly four months after he joined the hunger strike...

Seems I recall reading 24 days is about what it takes to starve to death. So, what's this guy's secret? What has been sustaining him the other 100 days?

35 posted on 06/22/2013 1:17:00 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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String the hunger striker (terrorist) up with piano wire, make all the rest of the terrorists watch as he dies, then as the carcass is fed to hungry pigs. Ask ‘em “who’s next?” Then shave all the bastards, and burn all their unholy books.


36 posted on 06/22/2013 4:22:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Innovative

Here is what you do:

Dig the requisite number of graves (facing the wrong way) right near a pig sty. Pipe the live pictures to the hunger striking detainees 24/7.


37 posted on 06/22/2013 5:18:31 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: VanShuyten

” Pot smoke in the ventilation system.”

Took a few seconds for that to click ... then the memories flooded in...


38 posted on 06/22/2013 6:08:28 PM PDT by moovova
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