US guards battle Guantanamo inmates in wild fight
Fri May 19, 2006 7:24pm ET164

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten Guantanamo prisoners lured U.S. guards into a cell with a staged suicide attempt, then attacked them with light fixtures, fan blades and other improvised weapons while guards fired rubber balls and used a grenade launcher to subdue them, U.S. officials said on Friday.

The officials called Thursday's clash the most intense outbreak of violence at the jail for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since it opened in January 2002.

Six prisoners were treated for "minor injuries" and none of the U.S. guards was seriously hurt after the fight pitting 10 inmates against 10 U.S. guards, the officials said. The fight ended only after guards blasted detainees five times with a 12 gauge shotgun shooting rubber balls and used a grenade launcher that shot a blunt rubber object, officials said.

While guards were putting down the fight, detainees in nearby cells began rioting, destroying cameras used to monitor them, fans, florescent lights and other property, officials said.

Human rights activists decry the indefinite detention of Guantanamo detainees and accuse the United States of torture. The Pentagon insists detainees are treated humanely and not tortured, and says many dangerous al Qaeda and Taliban figures are held there.

Details of the clash emerged on the same day that the United Nations' top anti-torture body told Washington that any secret jails it ran for foreign terrorism suspects, along with the Guantanamo facility, were illegal and should be closed. The United States has refused to give U.N. human rights investigators access to the detainees.

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Heres the Times Version:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2188705,00.html
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The camp commander, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, said that the prisoner was only pretending to hang himself to lure the guards into the room. “The detainees had slickened the floor of their block with faeces, urine and soapy water in an attempt to trick the guards,” he said.

“They then assaulted the guards with broken light fixtures, fan blades and bits of metal.”

The guards used pepper spray and blasted the detainees with several shots from a shotgun that fired rubber balls during the five-minute fight. No guards were hurt, but six inmates were treated for “minor injuries”, he said.

Earlier in the day, two detainees in another part of the prison had attempted suicide by swallowing prescription medicine they had been hoarding, the US military reported. In all, there have been 39 suicide attempts at Guantanamo since it opened in January 2002 — including at least 12 by Juma’a Mohammed al-Dossary, a 32-year-old from Bahrain.
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Who's the terrorist?

I'd probably say the people trying to shank the guards with light fixtures...

Who's the terrorist?
Allah forbid that our prison guards use rubber bullets to quell a prison uprising, and subsequently treat them for any injuries sustained; that is just pure terrorism.

Allah forbid that our prison guards use rubber bullets to quell a prison uprising, and subsequently treat them for any injuries sustained; that is just pure terrorism.

What is the significance of using Allah? Are you trying to imply something?

Yeah, he's after YOU googs! He's making fun of YOUR god... OMG lighten up, every time there is something remotely related to Islam, you feel injured instantly! As for the messenge, you perfectly understand it, stop acting baffled - it's called irony.

What is the significance of using Allah? Are you trying to imply something?
Someone get a doctor! This man has a stick jammed into his rectum.

Yeah, he's after YOU googs! He's making fun of YOUR god... OMG lighten up, every time there is something remotely related to Islam, you feel injured instantly! As for the messenge, you perfectly understand it, stop acting baffled - it's called irony.

Playing dumb is a fun thing to do. It makes people like you get mad and upset. Honestly, I was bored at work and this is what I did too pass up a whole two minutes. But regardless, I thought it would be funny at the moment but I guess not....:woohoo:

I'd probably say the people trying to shank the guards with light fixtures...woa...thanks for clearing that up. For a second I thought that it was the people who kidnap random people from around the globe then torture them indefinately...

At the moment of the uprising, yea the guards did the right thing.

I (along with the authors) believe that a reason that there was a uprising was because they were being treated inhumanly. Think, if you were in their shoes, and you were being treated like that, with no actual sentence that you were serving, how would you act? I would do the same thing.
However, if I was being treated as a standard prisoner with a certain sentence, a number of years, I would serve my time and be a free man. The prisoners there don't have that hope of being a free person simply by acting good.

What about lifers then? And death row inmates?

What about lifers then? And death row inmates?

I was giving rational for why they did it, I was not condoning their behavior. There was torture and humiliation to consider as well, which gives more reason to rebel.

Lifers and death row inmates are almost certainly more inclined to rebel than someone who has 6 months.