Friday, January 9, 2009

Hunger Strike In Guantanamo Prison Continues

U.S. troops enter Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay. Photo from FOX News/AP

10 Percent Of Guantanamo Detainees Now Being Force Fed -- McClatchy Newspapers

Guantanamo detainees are staging a fresh wave of hunger strikes ahead of the seventh anniversary of the controversial prison camps — a campaign a lawyer links to the speedy release of Osama bin Laden's driver from U.S. military detention.

As of Thursday, 30 of the 250 war-on-terror detainees were classified as hunger strikers, 25 of whom were being fed through tubes in their noses, said Navy Cmdr. Pauline Storum at Guantanamo.

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My Comment: Only 10%. I guess the other 90% do not want to be martyrs.

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