Guantanamo detainee from Afghanistan commits suicide

Another Guantanamo detainee died of an apparent suicide today. Here's the Department of Defense statement.

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EH

Thanks Boopy, you just justified US soldiers being burned and dragged through the streets in Mogadishu and Fallujah. Kudos!
- Sapa
  
  I’m sorry to say this but they were only in those streets because of an illegal invasion into someone else’s country.
  This guy was obviously tortured, and they need an autopsy for a suicide that is only speculative while in the “humane care” of this diabolical prison. It can only stir up more hatred.
  Sorry if this is a simplistic view and not meaning to cause offense.
Anonymous

“well that’s the last one.” “yep. guess we can close down the place now.” “i hear Trump wants to build a casino here” “well that would maintain the ambiance, at least”
Anonymous

I wonder if Obama would confess to not being born in America if submitted to 3 years of water boarding living in conditions like those in Guantanamo. If he did, it would totally justify the treatment right? I mean he’d be guilty of treason. Now since the current American way seems to be torture first, worry about guilt later, lets just send him on his way, we have nothing to lose, except the lives of the innocent, but seriously how innocent can you be if you are suspected of not being born in America?
Anonymous

Couldn’t be the three and a half years of torture then?
Boopy

Oh boohoo. Shall we mention the multiple ex-detainees freed only so they could return to top right and kill more American, British, and Canadian soldiers?
- Anonymous
  
  No. Let’s be civilized and not.
- curveclimber
  
  Hmm, I wonder what young men in Afghanistan will want to do when they hear Americans tortured another detainee to death? You think they might want to kill more American, British, and Canadian soldiers?
- travtastic
  
  Well, we’re not exaggerating and making things up here, so no, we shall not.
- emmdeeaych
  
  Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
anansi133

the last such ‘suicides’ I remember, killed themselves by stuffing socks in their own mouths and using duct tape to tape it all in, then hanging themselves from a fixture. – clearly no regard for human life.

I wonder if this ‘suicide’ followed the same diabolical M.O.?
Anonymous

Remember the story about the military hiring people to troll/grassroot the internet? I see it here, Dangerous Minds and Slashdot besides the usual political sites. What other unusual spots is it on?
Capn’Redbeard

Gee, they sure have them under close watch down there, don’t they? Makes you wonder, “apparent suicide”, could that be a euphemsism for “enhanced auto-homicide”?
Anonymous

Nothing subverts what the west stands for like Gitmo.

Rule of law? Only if we say so!
Anonymous

America, land of freedom!

I guess the information he had that was so important to get wasn’t worth keeping him from killing himself.