Guantanamo suicide investigation may have made surprise finding
An investigation into three apparent suicides at the U-S prison at Guantanamo Bay may have uncovered a broader plot.
According to court papers, a search of other detainees’ cells after the three were found hanged turned up instructions on tying knots, along with several relevant notes in Arabic. The detention center’s commander said in an affidavit investigators believe “the suicides may have been part of a larger plan or pact for more suicides that day or in the immediate future.”
Authorities say they confiscated personal papers from nearly all 450 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The government wants a judge to appoint a special review panel to review all the documents, including letters from attorneys. But lawyers for the detainees condemn the confiscation of the legal papers as a violation of attorney-client privilege and want them returned.
