Stinky prison camp standoff over (Gitmo)

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/21/2418206/stinky-prison-camp-standoff-over.html


Credit a combination of peer pressure and counseling for the end of a stomach-wrenching summertime protest inside the Pentagon’s maximum-security prison in southeast Cuba


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War on terror captives are no longer smearing their cells with feces in a stomach-wrenching power struggle with the guards at the maximum security Camp 5 lockup on this remote navy base.

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Camp 5 is where the Pentagon keeps its four convicted war criminals, among them Osama bin Laden’s media secretary, serving life, and the worst behaving among the 171 Muslim captives, whom the guards refer to as “the brothers.” It has 100 cells and is at most a third full.

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Senior staff at Guantánamo have described life inside the detention center as a continuing exercise in co-existence between a captive population that has been held nearly 10 years — the youngest captive, Omar Khadr of Canada, turned 25 Monday — and military guards posted to the Navy base on six-, nine- and 12-month rotations.

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As of last week, 12 captives were engaging in a hunger strike. More than half of them were being shackled in a special chair by guards for twice a day feedings. Military medical staff tether tubes up their noses to pump Ensure into their stomachs.

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this is the first that I've seen calling Gitmo a Pentagon prison?

we have a 1000 plus guards there. its also referred to as a Navy base.

it stinks that the pentagon still has this place