Guantanamo inmate says guards forced feeding tubes up his nose

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BY CAROL ROSENBERG

Knight Ridder Newspapers

MIAMI - In his on-again, off-again hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Saudi captive Yousef al-Shehri says U.S. troops forced feeding tubes up his nose and into his stomach to keep him from starving himself. <snip>

Shehri told attorney Julia Tarver this month that U.S. forces - not doctors or nurses - have brutally inserted and removed feeding tubes, and on one occasion yanked a bloody tube out of one prisoner and put it up the nose and into the stomach of another, in the U.S. military effort to keep captives from starving themselves. <snip>

``Doctors and registered nurses carefully and continuously evaluate the health of all detainees being tube-fed,'' said Navy Capt. John Edmondson, who oversees medical care for captives as well as sailors, soldiers, contractors and their families. <snip>

But Tarver quoted her client as describing detainees vomiting blood after doctors pumped too much liquid nutritional supplement into their stomachs: ``When they vomited up blood, the soldiers mocked and cursed them, and taunted them with statements like, `Look what your religion has brought you.''' <snip>

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