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Camp X-Ray Detainees Refuse to Eat Their Vegetables
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba | Almost two hundred Taliban and al-Qa'eda being held under maximum security in U.S. Military detention facilities have staged a hunger strike to protest what they consider severe mistreatment by their captors.
Two of them protested that they were forced to remove their turbans, and another is unhappy because he was told to tuck in his shirt tail.
Several of the suspected terrorists have openly vowed to kill an American before they leave, while others have threatened to hold their breath and stomp their feet.
The growing list of grievances started even before the first group of prisoners completed their long transport flight from Afghanistan in January.
It was reported that several prisoners were disciplined for constantly asking "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" Some had to be repeatedly warned to stop kicking the seat in front of them. And after landing at the tropical U.S. military base, many said the new neighborhood was "icky" and they missed running barefoot in the snow.
One Navy security guard said, "We always have some trouble with crankiness during mealtime. Usually they just push the food around on the plate with their fork. We finally gave up asking them to to keep their elbows off the table, and not chew with their mouths open. Most of us feel like we're just wasting our breath trying to make them behave."
Amnesty International is still looking into claims that some detainees are frequently sent to their room without desert, or forced to stand in the "time out" corner for refusing to make their bed and pick up their things.
But the International Red Cross has dismissed allegations that one Al-Qa'eda was spanked with a hickory switch and then forced to wash his mouth out with soap.
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