What Do You Call 3 Guantanamo Suicides? A Good Start!

Three Detainees Who Committed Suicide Are Identified

By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 12, 2006; Page A05

The top commander for the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, compared the three suicides there over the weekend to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in that everyday objects were turned into weapons.

Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, chief of the Southern Command, told reporters yesterday that the prisoners turned bedsheets and blankets "into means to take one's life."

The Pentagon identified the three as Saudi Arabians Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi al-Utaybi, 30, and Yassar Talal al-Zharani, 22, and Ali Abdullah Ahmed of Yemen, who was 29 or 30.

Ahmed, the Pentagon said, was a "mid- to high-level al-Qaeda operative." It said he was "hostile" during his time at Guantanamo Bay and was a "long-term hunger striker" from late 2005 to last month.

The Pentagon identified Shaman Turki as a militant who worked as a recruiter for al-Qaeda and who had been part of Jamaat Tabligh, which it said had been banned in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. He had been recommended for transfer to the custody of another country before his suicide, the Pentagon said. It said he would also have been under detention there.

Yassar Talal was said to have been a front-line fighter for the Taliban who was captured by Afghan forces, then in November 2001 participated in a prison uprising in Mazar-e Sharif in which Johnny "Mike" Spann, a CIA officer, was killed.

Speaking to reporters at Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta, Craddock said that an investigation of the three deaths is underway by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Noting that "there's been a lot of attempted suicides," he said he did not know why these three succeeded early Saturday.

"I think there is disappointment because the suicides occurred," he said. "I don't think there is discouragement."

What, I'm supposed to feel guilty or regretful over the suicide deaths of 3 terrorists? Not bloody likely! These animals, and I use the word advisedly, are being coddled far too much. We don't even treat prisoners in America as well as these murderers are being treated.

This breast-beating and hair-pulling by the Paleo-media and the Terrorist Sympathizers on the Left is nothing short of revolting. These are not a bunch of poor refugees struggling for freedom, they are terrorists captured on the battle-fields of Afghanistan and Iraq, and I really don't give a damn if they all hang themselves. Note to the Military Police: Please provide these guys with some good strong rope.

I am not going to shed one tear for these guys who would, if given the opportunity, slit every American citizens throat without any compuntion whatsoever. Those who are so upset by these deaths are idiots plain and simple, absolute head-in-the-sand idiots, who are so stupid that they shouldn't even be allowed to vote.

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