06.12.06

Now I’ve Heard [Just About] Everything . . . . > : (

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:09 am by kentnlgadmin

The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says.

The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were
“committed” and had killed themselves in “an act of asymmetric warfare
waged against us”.

[ . . . . ]

Rear Adm Harris said he did not believe the men had killed themselves out of despair.

“They are smart. They are creative, they are committed,” he said.

“They have no regard for life, either ours or their own.
I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of
asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”

And the “other side”

Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch in New York, told the BBC the men had probably been driven by despair.

“These people are despairing because they are being held lawlessly,” he said.

“There’s no end in sight. They’re not being brought
before any independent judges. They’re not being charged and convicted
for any crime.”

Don’t you just hate it when people kill themselves as an act of asymmetric warfare against your nation?

I shudder to think what would have happened if the Nazis had thought of this tactic.

Oh wait!  My great-grand-parents might still be alive.  Never mind.

Link.