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U.S. Disavows Guantanamo Suicide Comment

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Posted on Jun 12, 2006
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The Bush administration distanced itself from a remark by a senior State Department official who called the suicide of three detainees at the Cuba detention center a public relations move.

VOA News:

The Bush administration distanced itself Monday from a remark by a senior U.S. official calling the suicide of three prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center a public relations move. The State Department said the choice of words was unfortunate.

The State Department has delivered an indirect rebuke to one of its own officials, with a spokesman disavowing her depiction of the Guantanamo deaths as a public relations stunt, and stressing that the United States has serious concern about suicides at the facility.

The suicides of two Saudi Arabian and one Yemeni national early Saturday were the first inmate deaths since the United States began holding terrorism suspects there in 2002, and they spurred renewed criticism of the controversial facility.

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By native child, June 13, 2006 at 8:24 pm #
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Avowal, denial, what difference does it make.  We can assume, based upon their track record, that whatever this administration says is a lie.  Our mistake is paying attention to them.  It diverts us from the task at hand, taking back our country and turning it into a land in which there’s truly liberty and justice for all, and not to omit equality this time.  . .

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By elendil, June 13, 2006 at 5:32 pm #
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I bet they were kicking themselves when it was revealed that one of the suiciders was a “safe person, free to be released” (source). Diminishing the tragedy by smearing the victims kinda doesn’t work when it’s revealed that at least one of them might have been innocent.

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By C Quil, June 13, 2006 at 7:23 am #
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I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard the comment by that stupid woman. How callous.

What happens to her now - a promotion, or the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

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