The stain of Guantanamo keeps growing and growing. The President seems to have made some strides towards closing the shameful US landmark in the Caribbean. The occupants, the majority of whom have been held 3-9 years with no formal charges or trials, have been victims moreso than we have known. Harpers Magazine has put together a story of the killing of three guantanamo inmates in one day, whose deaths attributed to suicide were referred to brilliantly in the following shameless statement:
"I believe this was not an act of desperation,” he said, “but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”

My lord please grant me wisdom and patience. If they were suicides (and there is plenty of history in Guantanamo of suicides and suicide attempts, and the attempts by the authorities to stop those), can you seriously blame the culprits/victims? Put me in a no mans land jail for years with no charges and no trial, subject me to interrogation techniques that by most definitions are regarded as torture, give me no connection to the outside world, and on top of that prevent me from taking my own life to end my most meaningful existence?

Asymmetrical warfare? What in God's name is that supposed to mean? No question its asymmetrical, in the sense that those guys have no resources, rights, power, or hope. If they are such vile criminals that we claim they are, lets follow our laws and prove it in a court of law?

Read for yourself and come to your own conclusions:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368
and
http://www.slate.com/id/2241948/pagenum/all/#p2

On a positive note, two of the occupants who were released met with their former guard in England. Its a pleasant story, and eye opening for two reasons:
1. The regret and shame felt by the guard for his limited role in their jailing and his regretful dealing with another occupant
2. The fact that these two guys were in Afghanistan to get high, and were captured and sold to the US for ransom as terrorists.

Read for yourself
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8452937.stm