Yeah, because there's no better way to escape than to kill yourself first.
Seriously, this is just weird - and at the same time extremely troubline. The Bush administraiton is trying to claim that the detainees are killing themselves in order to pass secret communications back and forth or something. This is my favorite paragraph:
Three suicides at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may have been part of a broader plot by detainees who were using confidential lawyer-client papers and envelopes to pass handwritten notes their guards could not intercept, according to documents that government lawyers filed yesterday in federal court.Did you get that? A classified US military memo about Guantanamo itself. Let's just assume for a moment that these guys ARE Al Qaeda terrorists who are under top security at a US military prison. How did they get their hands on a classified US military memo detailing all sorts of useful information about Guantanamo Bay itself? They got it from their lawyers? Oh really, civilian lawyers now have access to classified military documents about our most secret and important anti-terrorist prison?
Detainees could apparently hide documents in their cells -- including instructions on how to tie knots and a classified U.S. military memo regarding cell locations of detainees and camp operational matters at Guantanamo -- by keeping the materials in envelopes labeled as lawyer-client communications.
Sounds to me like, if this is true, the Bush administration just admitted to one of the biggest intelligence snafus and security breaches since they've come into office.
