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Titolo: Briton held at Guantanamo says suicides inevitable (Reuters)

L'indignazione non e' abbastanza. Queste morti ci sfuggono, in mancanza 
di una competenza giuridica territoriale. Fino a quando?
La testimonianza e' di un torturato per caso.
Am.
Briton held at Guantanamo says suicides inevitable
 Sunday June 11, 05:18 PM
 LONDON (Reuters) - A British man held for two and a half years at the 
U.S.'s Guantanamo prison camp said on Sunday he was shocked that three 
inmates had hanged themselves but said treatment of prisoners there made 
suicide attempts inevitable.
 Shafiq Rasul, who was held at the Guantanamo camp in Cuba after being 
arrested in Afghanistan, said that while he was there, inmates who were 
subjected to
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 constant beatings and interrogations had attempted to take their own 
lives.
 "I was shocked, but at the same time it is inevitable that something 
like that would happen," he told Sky Television.
 "There were numerous suicide attempts while I was there as well -- it 
happened right in front of me."
 The U.S. military said on Saturday that three Arabs at the camp -- two 
Saudis and one Yemeni -- had hanged themselves with clothes and bed 
sheets. The three had taken part previously in extended hunger strikes 
and been force-fed. They all left suicide notes but no details were made 
public.
 The deaths, the first at the prison since the United States began 
holding terrorism suspects there in 2002, were described as a publicity 
stunt by a senior U.S. official.
 Colleen Graffy, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for public 
diplomacy, told the BBC World Service the suicides were a "good PR move 
to draw attention."
 "It does sound that this is part of a strategy in that they don't value 
their own life and they certainly don't value ours and they use suicide 
bombings as a tactic to further their Jihadi cause," she said.
 She said the men had not needed to take their lives to protest their 
situation, as they had access to lawyers, mail and could write to their 
families.
 MOVED OR CLOSED
 Constitutional Affairs Minister Harriet Harman said the camp should be 
moved to the United States or closed.
 "If it is perfectly legal and there is nothing going wrong there, why 
don't they have it in America?" she said on BBC television. "It is in a 
legal no man's land. Either it should be moved to America and then they 
can hold those people under the American justice system or it should be 
closed."
 The government's top legal adviser, Attorney General Peter Goldsmith, 
last month said the camp should be closed.
 The U.S. military says 23 inmates have attempted suicide a total of 41 
times since the camp opened.
 Asked whether he had heard other inmates talk of suicide when he was 
incarcerated at Guantanamo, Rasul said: "I don't think they ever spoke 
about it, but there were individuals who had just had enough, couldn't 
take any more, were going crazy, who would attempt to kill themselves."
 Rasul was one of three British Muslims who say they travelled to 
Pakistan in 2001 for a wedding and entered Afghanistan when called on by 
a cleric to help distribute aid.
 He was freed without charge in March 2004 and has since accused 
Washington of torture and launched a legal battle for compensation.
 "Basically for the two and a half years I was there, I had no rights," 
he said. "I had no communication with the outside world, I had no access 
to lawyers, and I was accused of being a member of al Qaeda -- I was 
told I was the worst of the worst."
 Rasul said he was "beaten on a regular basis, taken to interrogation, 
shackled to the floor in very stressful positions and left there for 
hours and hours".
 Guantanamo holds about 460 foreigners captured mainly in Afghanistan 
where the United States has fought the Taliban and al Qaeda.

La testimonianza e' di un torturato per caso.
Peccato che delle sue fantasiose quanto fantomatiche "torture" non sa
portare nessuna prova.  E che lui non si sia "inevitabilmente suicidato"
nonostante la fantasiose quanto fantomatiche "torture" di cui sarebbe
stato vittima :)
-Stefano

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Puoi sempre incominciare a suicidarti tu, visto che sei arrivato al 
capolinea. Gli antichi romani lo facevano anche per ragioni morali, 
piuttosto che traccheggiare.
 Renderebbe onore al tuo nick piuttosto che dare l'impressione di 
un'usurpazione, De Ce':
http://www.esercito.difesa.it/root/media/musiche/caserma/silenzio.mp3
Am.

 
http://www.esercito.difesa.it/root/media/musiche/caserma/silenzio.mp3
La suoneremo al tuo funerale.  Inutile che continui a chiederla.
-Stefano