By Andrew L. Jaffee

26,000 Iraqis have been slaughtered by “insurgents,” and all’s the “human rights” groups can do is harp on Gitmo? From the Washington Post:

Dossari’s suicide attempt two weeks ago is believed to be the first such event witnessed by an outsider at the prison, and one of several signs that lawyers and human rights advocates contend point to growing desperation among the more than 500 detainees there. Lawyers believe Dossari, who has been in solitary confinement for nearly two years, timed his suicide attempt so that someone other than his guards would witness it, a cry for help meant to reach beyond the base’s walls.

Two dozen Guantanamo Bay detainees are currently being force-fed in response to a lengthy hunger strike, and the detainees’ lawyers estimate there are dozens more who have not eaten since August. Military officials say there are 27 hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay, all of whom are clinically stable, closely monitored by medical personnel and receiving proper nutrition.

A “growing desperation” from what, being locked in a cell with a personal copy of the Qu’ran and getting “special consideration for religious requirements of observing Ramadan, the Muslim holy month?”

…food-service officials at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are providing pre-dawn and midnight meals to help the detainees observe their customs during this holy period, the joint task force’s food-service officer explained.

Oh, my. It sounds just awful. People who would slit our throats being given time to study their religious texts and eat special diets, prepared just for them. Sounds a bit easier and better than American kids dodging bullets in Iraq, trying to build democracy.

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Related: War Against Islamo-fascism

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