Three Guantanamo Bay detainees who hanged themselves in their cells were tested psychologically only days before their suicides and showed no signs of being depressed, a military doctor said yesterday.
The doctor suggested the examinations, performed one to two weeks before the suicides on 10 June, supported assertions by military officials that the prisoners killed themselves as a political act - not because they were despondent about their prolonged detention. The Independent
I’m trying to work out the distinction being made on this issue. It beats me; seems to depend on your definition of psychologically unstable I guess.
But you would have to be stark raving mad to think you could benefit from the political points scored by killing yourself.
I think we’ll just put this down to some more of that shallow justification of the unjustifiable that the Bush regime is so adept at providing.
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