84 in Gitmo hunger strike From: Reuters From correspondents in Washington DC December 30, 2005 THE number of Guantanamo Bay prisoners taking part in a nearly five-month-long hunger strike has surged to 84 since Christmas Day, the US military said today. Forty-six detainees at the prison for foreign terrorism suspects at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, joined the protest on the key Christian holiday last Sunday, said Army Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Martin, a military spokesman. Australian detainee David Hicks is not believed to be part of the hunger strike. The prisoner population, which the Pentagon says numbers...