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Pentagon: Gitmo Prisoner Commits Suicide

HeadlineJun 03, 2009

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner has died of what the Pentagon is calling an “apparent suicide.” The prisoner, Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih, was thirty-one years old. A Yemeni national, he had been held at Guantanamo without charge since 2002. He had previously taken part in a long-running hunger strike that had left him weighing as little as around eighty-six pounds. It’s the fourth apparent suicide by a Guantanamo prisoner.

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