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Posted on Mon, Apr. 15, 2002 2 Guantanamo detainees no longer being force-fed By CAROL ROSENBERG Knight Ridder Newspapers GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Navy hospital medical staff have released two terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay from a forced-feeding regime and sent them back to Camp X-Ray to continue their hunger strike, a spokesman said Monday. Medical workers placed feeding tubes up the noses and into the stomachs of two shackled prisoners on Easter Sunday, after they refused food and water for a full month to protest their incarceration. They removed them Friday, their 12th day of forced feeding in a Navy tent hospital, said Marine Maj. James Bell, and sent them back to their 8-by-8-foot chain-link cells at Camp X-Ray on Saturday. Other prisoners among the 299 men from 33 different countries have also engaged in what commanders call "a rolling hunger strike," periodically refusing meals. Commanders attribute the protest to uncertainty over their futures in Caribbean detainment. But the two men in their 20s, whose identities are being shielded, had lost enough body weight to cause concern to doctors. They were also given intravenous drips against dehydration. "The plan at this point is to continue to encourage the two detainees to eat on their own, and the medical staff out at X-Ray will continue to closely monitor their health," said Bell, personal spokesman for Army Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus, commander of the prison project. The prisoners did not gain weight during the procedure, which pumped into their stomachs 2,000 calories a day of what doctors described as a white milkshake-like substance, Bell said. But they did not lose weight either. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
