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http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/world/3070380.htm

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.

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