U.S. taking a tougher line with detainees at Guantanamo.

[brazos121200]

"After two years in which the military sought to manage terrorism suspects at Guantanamo with incentives for good behavior, steady improvements in their living conditions and even dialogue with prison leaders, the authorities here have clamped down decisively in recent months.
Security procedures have been tightened. Group activities have been scaled back. ...officials said about three-fourths of the detainees would eventually be held in maximum-security cells. That is in stark departure from earlier plans to hold a similar number in medium-security units.
Officials said the shift reflected the military's analysis--after a series of humger strikes, a riot last May and three suicides by detainees in June--that earlier efforts to ease restrictions on the detainees had gone too far."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/washington/16gitmo.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

So, no more Mr. Nice Guy, I guess.

[oblivious]

1. I think they need regular torture sessions to get valuable information.

1. Where is Osama? (He was in a cave last time I saw him)
2. Where are the next IEDs going to be set off? (soon)
3. When and where are you going to attack the American homeland next? (when your guys tell us to)
4. Why do you hate America? (because you make it so easy)

Before they forget after 4 years in isolation.

[rgbecker]

2. Close down Guantanamo!

Closing Guantanamo should be first priority of the new Democratic Congress, before minimum wage and all the rest.
We've got enough prisons right here in the ol' USA to take care of any legitimate crooks. Bush should get them to court and show the world what they've done. If these are indeed the "evil ones" it could only help our image abroad and if not then let em go. Right now we're looking more and more like the Nazis and the Soviets to all the rest of the world. Unfortunately it looks like Bush has got nothing on these guys and that's why he needs his special rules and his special place. Write your congressmen and remind them that for someone in their position looking the other way is the same as endorsing the policy. Thanks.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. That'll teach 'em to commit suicide! Ingrates!

Having those charming and sympathetic goons..uh..guards..valets seeing to their every need, they have the temerity to object to the lavish treatment tendered them by committing suicide and not eating the catered gourmet food.

It's a disgrace I tell you! After all we done for them. Some people are never happy.