WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ""Ten Guantanamo prisoners lured U.S. guards into a cell with a staged suicide attempt, then attacked them with light fixtures, fan blades and other improvised weapons while guards fired rubber balls and used a grenade launcher to subdue them, U.S. officials said on Friday.
The officials called Thursday’s clash the most intense outbreak of violence at the jail for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since it opened in January 2002.
Six prisoners were treated for “minor injuries” and none of the U.S. guards was seriously hurt after the fight pitting 10 inmates against 10 U.S. guards, the officials said. The fight ended only after guards blasted detainees five times with a 12 gauge shotgun shooting rubber balls and used a grenade launcher that shot a blunt rubber object, officials said.
While guards were putting down the fight, detainees in nearby cells began rioting, destroying cameras used to monitor them, fans, florescent lights and other property, officials said. ...
“The detainees had slickened the floor of their block with feces, urine and soapy water in an attempt to trip the guards. They then assaulted the guards with broken light fixtures, fan blades and bits of metal,” said Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, who commands the Guantanamo facility.
The clash took place in Camp Four, a medium-security facility with communal living arrangements, Harris said.""
i wonder if the story will ever be updated in the msm?...my guess is "no", can't do anything that would show these guys as anything but harmless victims.....
this riot sums up in miniature the entire battle between the west and the jihadis....
they use all of their might, every dirty trick imaginable, to inflict maximum damage and massacre everyone in sight....
we, in contrast, use an absurd amount of restraint, and withhold even the hint of using real force.....they tried to saw off guards' heads with fan blades, we fire rubber pellets....
and then, of course, the left will step in and decry us for "oppressing" them...
i have a friend who`s a guard down at gitmo.....he said the detainees learned that instead of this weekend's double feature, "chicken run" and the season finale of "prison break", they will attend another mandatory viewing of"ishtar"?.......
i think i understand...
btw...there have reportedly been 39 suicide attempts(must have run out of fruit cups) at gitmo.....12 by the same dude...
he must be pretty p.o.`ed by now...
The officials called Thursday’s clash the most intense outbreak of violence at the jail for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since it opened in January 2002.
Six prisoners were treated for “minor injuries” and none of the U.S. guards was seriously hurt after the fight pitting 10 inmates against 10 U.S. guards, the officials said. The fight ended only after guards blasted detainees five times with a 12 gauge shotgun shooting rubber balls and used a grenade launcher that shot a blunt rubber object, officials said.
While guards were putting down the fight, detainees in nearby cells began rioting, destroying cameras used to monitor them, fans, florescent lights and other property, officials said. ...
“The detainees had slickened the floor of their block with feces, urine and soapy water in an attempt to trip the guards. They then assaulted the guards with broken light fixtures, fan blades and bits of metal,” said Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, who commands the Guantanamo facility.
The clash took place in Camp Four, a medium-security facility with communal living arrangements, Harris said.""
i wonder if the story will ever be updated in the msm?...my guess is "no", can't do anything that would show these guys as anything but harmless victims.....
this riot sums up in miniature the entire battle between the west and the jihadis....
they use all of their might, every dirty trick imaginable, to inflict maximum damage and massacre everyone in sight....
we, in contrast, use an absurd amount of restraint, and withhold even the hint of using real force.....they tried to saw off guards' heads with fan blades, we fire rubber pellets....
and then, of course, the left will step in and decry us for "oppressing" them...
i have a friend who`s a guard down at gitmo.....he said the detainees learned that instead of this weekend's double feature, "chicken run" and the season finale of "prison break", they will attend another mandatory viewing of"ishtar"?.......
i think i understand...
btw...there have reportedly been 39 suicide attempts(must have run out of fruit cups) at gitmo.....12 by the same dude...
he must be pretty p.o.`ed by now...
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