U.S. Says Assaults Down at Guantanamo

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Aug 31, 2:21 PM EDT

U.S. Says Assaults Down at Guantanamo

By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Assaults on guards at Guantanamo Bay dropped by more than 60 percent since last year as the prison tightened security and released dozens of inmates, but "mass disturbances" nearly doubled, the U.S. military said in a new report.

A one-page report, titled "Danger Inside the Wire," said 385 such disturbances occurred among detainees in the first six months of 2007, compared with 201 in the same period a year earlier.

Army Lt. Col. Ed Bush said the figure includes assaults or "other acts" involving at least three detainees that were intended to disrupt operations at the detention center, where about 355 men remain held without charges on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

Bush declined to explain what other acts the military considers to be a mass disturbance. In the past, detainees have staged protests such as shouting and banging on their cell doors for hours at a time.

Several attorneys who represent detainees said they suspect the military's definition is overly broad.



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[THUNDER HANDS]

1. that's actually a lot

Rikers Island, which I believe is the largest prison in the country, has about 50 a year - according to a cop I overheard last week talking about such things.

[yellowcanine]

3. Yeah - only 355 prisoners and 70 assaults on guards + 385 "disturbances" in 6 months!

That's more than two a day. One wonders what constitutes a "disturbance."

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. probably anyone who resists

in whatever form.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Probably a dirty look would qualify. Hey, I'd be all over them like white on rice! Can't have that.

They've had it easy, better not press their luck. Remember, Republican Duncan Hunter finally let us all in on the fact they've been treated with kid gloves, even dining on the fabulous Orange Glazed Chicken, with Rice Pilaf, and lovely fruit. How DARE any of them to get out of line.


Many _Bush associates have told us over the last few years that these men are LUCKY to be there, where it's undoubtedly far better than any place they've ever been in their lives!

This sentiment was picked up and echoed by the gracious Barbara _Bush when she pointed out the New Orleans hurricane victims who were packed into the Houston Astrodome were also in a place far nicer than anything THEY had seen.

God bless our Republican patriots!

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Satan says temperature of Hell lowered several degrees

[struggle4progress]

5. delete n/t

[Solly Mack]

7. Oh...did water-boarding increase then?