Review Sheet for the Mid-Term - and yes, it will be on the test. Sigh. This from the Village Voice in November from Nat Hentoff Jumah Dossari has been imprisoned at Guantánamo for nearly four years without charges or access to his family, in nearly complete isolation. On October 15, he tried to hang himself in his cell, timing the attempt so that an outsider might see him dangling in a makeshift noose, his last message to the world. Dossari has more or less survived. (Military officials confirm that in the last few months, there have been at least 36 suicide attempts.) While he was being revived, other prisoners at Guantánamo, who are being force-fed because they are on a hunger strike in desperation, like Dossari's, had their cases heard against "George W. Bush, et al.," in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. I have seen many stories on the hunger strikers in the national and international press; but the clearest account I know, vividly detailing what Geor...
Comments