A hero of Guant=E1namo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1644024,00.html
As the Camp Delta hunger strikers grow weaker, the US Senate is denying
them justice
Victoria Brittain
Thursday November 17, 2005
The Guardian
Fawzi al-Odah weighed just 44.5kg (7st) last week when his lawyer,
Thomas Wilner, visited him in Guant=E1namo. In August 2002 he weighed
63.5kg (10st). The young Kuwaiti is one of the hundred or so men in the
US prison camp who have been on sporadic hunger strikes since August.
During Wilner's previous visit in September, he tried, on Fawzi's
father's instructions, to persuade him to end his hunger strike. But
Fawzi told him: "Tell my father I'm trying to be a hero like him, and
if he was here he would do the same as I am doing." Khalid al-Odah,
Fawzi's father, was a US-trained Kuwaiti fighter pilot who fought in
the underground during the Iraqi invasion.
Victoria Brittain
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