Gitmo detainee apparently kills himself

[madokie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_suicide

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Critics of the detention center said the death showed the level of desperation among prisoners.

Also Wednesday, a Canadian detainee fired his American attorneys, leaving him without defense counsel ahead of his trial, his former U.S. military attorney told The Associated Press. The detainee, Omar Khadr, is still to be arraigned and is one of only three of the roughly 380 Guantanamo prisoners to be charged with a crime.

The military did not identify the detainee who died or describe the manner of death. There are about 80 detainees from Saudi Arabia held at Guantanamo.

Guards at the U.S. Naval Base in southeast Cuba found the detainee unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. military's Southern Command said in a statement.

[Lerkfish]

1. I find myself unable to fully believe any report from gitmo that comes through

military channels.

I could more fully believe he was "enhanced interrogated" to death.

[madokie]

2. Yes, me too

the ghost of gitmo will haunt the US for years to come