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Gitmo: war on terror devolves into food fight.

Whitewing

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/03/24/186784/at-guantanamo-captives-war-on.html

Can't copy the story but it's worth the read. There's a hunger strike in progress at Gitmo.

The story comments that the guards are trashing meals that look like they could feed 100 persons. I wonder how many college kids those meals could feed? :???: :???: :???:

BTW, I was sure Gitmo had been closed. What's up with that? :???: :???:
 

Steve

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All sides blame long simmering frustration with President Barack Obama’s inability to deliver on his promise to close the facility.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/03/24/186784/at-guantanamo-captives-war-on.html#storylink=cpy

while I had hoped for an end,.. it seems that Broke cowboy is right.

On Wednesday, the Army captain in charge of Camp 6 since January said all the cellblocks but one had refused their food carts for “around three or four weeks,” and were subsisting on snacks such as pita bread and peanut butter that were stashed in their pantries or thrown over recreation yard walls from Delta Block.

Commanders point to scraps of pita bread and used individual portions of peanut butter in trash bags otherwise filled with empty water bottles at the exits of supposedly hunger-striking cellblocks, and snicker that the captives are cheating and eating.

Captives who openly refuse meals agree to be led off to a tube-feeding while none of the others are watching.

The captives are still drinking water.

and this behavior wouldn't be tolerated in a federal prison...
Guards now are keeping checklists, trying to track a captive snacking or slipping into a food pantry — an increasingly complex task because the commanders say the no-longer cooperative captives of Camp 6 have covered the cameras in their individual cells with empty cereal boxes, making it hard to look inside.

“All they can do is watch TV and movies and play PlayStation. It’s pretty boring for them now,”

I would shut off the TV, and games and give them one day until they comply,..
 

hypocritexposer

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How are they going to make use of the new soccer fields and tennis courts, if they don't keep their strength up, for such activities. :???:

Maybe their Imam can send them a chocolate cake in their care packages.
 
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