Guantanamo Bay detainees are staging suicide attempts and hunger strikes to undermine American policy in the war on terror, a senior U.S. military official said, calling the acts a “jihad” against the United States. “The detainees view this as a struggle. They view this as a jihad … They’re trying to figure out ways that they can continue the fight,” Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of the U.S. prison on Cuba’s southeastern tip. “They do that with hunger strikes, overdosing on medicines. And now they’ve succeeded in killing themselves.” Full Story
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