You certainly won't hear about this on the news...
From Arab News:
JEDDAH, 1 June 2007 — A Saudi detainee died after an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Wednesday, the US military said yesterday. The military did not say how the prisoner died nor release his name. “The detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell by guards. The detainee was pronounced dead by a physician after all lifesaving measures had been exhausted,” the US Southern Command in Miami said in a statement.
Sources here identified the detainee as Abdul Rahman ibn Muada ibn Dhafir Al-Amri, a 34-year-old Saudi resident from Khamis Mushayt. Al-Amri was also known as “Abu Anas Al-Nigery” and was one of the 40 detainees who went on a hunger strike in 2005, said a source close to the case who asked not to be identified.
The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) called for an independent and neutral inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Al-Amri’s death.
Arab News learned that the detainee was suffering from a number of illnesses and had a very weak constitution. The source told the paper that Al-Amri “had stomach problems in addition to hepatitis and epigastria.” The detainee was reportedly held in solitary confinement at the controversial offshore US Naval
Base prison where so-called enemy combatants of the US war on terror are incarcerated.
Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman of the Interior Ministry, said Al-Amri’s relatives have been informed and measures taken to bring his body home.
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And this was never on any US News.
Yup, not one word on the news.
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