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"Tuttles Almanac" |
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21 Jul 2005 05:15:19 PM |
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POWs on hunger strike |
Pentagon Officials Confirm Guantanamo Hunger Strike
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7O16HFBE.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fifty-two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have declared
they are on a hunger strike, military officials said Thursday.
They have refused at least nine meals over the last three days, officials said.
"Indications are that this is a temporary effort by some detainees to protest
their continued detention," the military command at the prison for terrorist
suspects said in a statement.
The detainees refusing meals have been given intravenous hydration, Gatorade,
water and the nutritional supplement Ensure, the statement says. Some may be
admitted to the hospital.
The Pentagon's version of the strike contrasted somewhat from the accounts of
two Afghans released from the facility for terrorist suspects earlier this week.
On Wednesday, they claimed that more than about 180 Afghans were on a hunger
strike to protest alleged mistreatment at the facility at a U.S. military base in Cuba.
Habir Russol and Moheb Ullah Borekzai, who said they left the prison camp
Monday and were flown to Afghanistan before being freed, said they did not
participate in the hunger strike. They did not say how they knew others
were refusing to eat.
Russol said 180 Afghan prisoners "are not eating or drinking." He and Borekzai
estimated the men were in the 14th or 15th day of their fast.
Borekzai later told The Associated Press the detainees were protesting because
"some of these people say they were mistreated during interrogation. Some say
they are innocent."
"They are protesting that they have been in jail nearly four years and they
want to be released," he said.
Neil Koslowe, a Washington-based lawyer for 12 detainees from Kuwait, said
several inmates told him during a June 20-24 visit to Guantanamo that there
was a widespread hunger strike over the amount and quality of their drinking water.
The two Afghans released this week said they had been accused of being members
of the former Taliban regime, but both said they were innocent. Neither said
how long they had been detained.
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that seven Guantanamo detainees
had been released and an eighth transferred to the custody of a foreign
government. In addition to the two released Afghans, three Saudi Arabians,
a Jordanian and a Sudanese were freed, it said.
The three Saudis, who were not identified, were handed over to Saudi security,
the official Saudi Press Agency in Riyadh said. It did not specify whether the
three were detained for questioning, saying only that "the regular procedures
will be applied accordingly."
In addition, a Moroccan was transferred to control of the government of Spain,
U.S. officials said. The Pentagon did not identify the detainees. The Moroccan
was identified earlier this week in Spain as Lahcen Ikassrien, who had been
charged there for his links to an al-Qaida cell.
The transfers leave about 510 prisoners at Guantanamo.
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| User: "Jim E" |
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| Title: Re: POWs on hunger strike |
21 Jul 2005 06:31:12 PM |
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"Tuttle's Almanac" <Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote in message
news:11e07jnaofo6810@corp.supernews.com...
Pentagon Officials Confirm Guantanamo Hunger Strike
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7O16HFBE.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fifty-two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have declared
they are on a hunger strike, military officials said Thursday.
They have refused at least nine meals over the last three days, officials
said.
Way cool'
At this rate they should start assuming room temperature in about twenty
five to thirty days.
Holes are way cheaper than trials.
Jim E
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| User: "robw" |
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| Title: Re: POWs on hunger strike |
21 Jul 2005 07:53:40 PM |
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Great, and when the response is four bombs going off in D.C."s Metro system,
don't ask............"Why do they hate us!!!!!!?????????"
"Jim E" <YD641387@SEA.net> wrote in message
news:3kaphjFt82d4U1@individual.net...
"Tuttle's Almanac" <Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote in message
news:11e07jnaofo6810@corp.supernews.com...
Pentagon Officials Confirm Guantanamo Hunger Strike
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7O16HFBE.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fifty-two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have declared
they are on a hunger strike, military officials said Thursday.
They have refused at least nine meals over the last three days,
officials
said.
Way cool'
At this rate they should start assuming room temperature in about twenty
five to thirty days.
Holes are way cheaper than trials.
Jim E
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| User: "Stan de SD" |
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| Title: Re: POWs on hunger strike |
21 Jul 2005 08:42:59 PM |
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"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:5ZKdneUp7eIS3n3fRVn-tQ@comcast.com...
Great, and when the response is four bombs going off in D.C."s Metro
system,
So you're telling us that we should give in to whatever they want to keep
them from attacking us, proving to them that terrorism works, right...
don't ask............"Why do they hate us!!!!!!?????????"
They hate us for the same reason that Lefty Liberals hate America - they are
a bunch of sick, demented totalitarians who think they have some right to
force their extremist wack-nut agenda on others. That was easy...
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| User: "robw" |
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| Title: Re: POWs on hunger strike |
21 Jul 2005 09:46:46 PM |
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I'm telling yr that Iraq is doing nothing to prevent terrorism.
I hate to say it, and don't condone it, but yr president's "efforts" to
prevent terrorism are coming up small.
And I don't hate this country.
But I do dislike this administration and morons like yr.
"Stan de SD" <standesd@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:DaYDe.1875$Uk3.276@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:5ZKdneUp7eIS3n3fRVn-tQ@comcast.com...
Great, and when the response is four bombs going off in D.C."s Metro
system,
So you're telling us that we should give in to whatever they want to keep
them from attacking us, proving to them that terrorism works, right...
don't ask............"Why do they hate us!!!!!!?????????"
They hate us for the same reason that Lefty Liberals hate America - they
are
a bunch of sick, demented totalitarians who think they have some right to
force their extremist wack-nut agenda on others. That was easy...
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| User: "Frank Pittel" |
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| Title: Re: POWs on hunger strike |
21 Jul 2005 10:10:38 PM |
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In alt.politics.usa.republican Stan de SD <standesd@earthlink.net> wrote:
: "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote in message
: news:5ZKdneUp7eIS3n3fRVn-tQ@comcast.com...
: > Great, and when the response is four bombs going off in D.C."s Metro
: system,
: So you're telling us that we should give in to whatever they want to keep
: them from attacking us, proving to them that terrorism works, right...
That's exactly what the looney tune brain dead loser lib dems are telling us.
They would rather surrender then even try and defend the US from attack.
Every one of them is a coward.
: > don't ask............"Why do they hate us!!!!!!?????????"
: They hate us for the same reason that Lefty Liberals hate America - they are
: a bunch of sick, demented totalitarians who think they have some right to
: force their extremist wack-nut agenda on others. That was easy...
True.
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