So those people held in inhuman and degrading conditions, subject to torture and with no apparent prospect of trial, whose hunger strikes result in painful force feeding then in desperation take their own lives, do so as a good PR move, to draw attention. Removing Ms Graffy from office and closing down Guantanamo Bay, might be 'good PR move' at this point.
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I find this quote even harder to believe: "They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a few other NGOs, have designated June Torture Awareness Month (www.tortureawareness.org). I've created a blogroll you can join if you're interested. You can find it here: blogagainsttorture.blogspot.com. The idea is that everyone is linked to from the blogroll, and in exchange, you discuss torture (as you already do), and link to the Torture Awareness site to help support the NGOs.
There's a lot of bloggers who are angry about human rights abuse in the War on Terror. If we coordinate, we can show our support and help Amnesty and HRW make Torture Awareness Month a success.
We’ve captured people in a war against an enemy who attacks us Kamikaze style. Our prisoner is motivated to advance his cause by whatever means available. Has he volunteered (or been ordered) to kill himself to get sympathy for his group? Knowing his modus operandus – murder, committing suicide in perverted ecstasy -, what’s hard to believe about that? The call (here and elsewhere) to release his comrades is proof that the tactic is working.