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Published time: June 29, 2013 10:44
A Yemeni detainee found dead in
Guantanamo Bay last year committed
suicide by overdosing on antipsychotic
drugs and a mix of other narcotics, a
report revealed. Guards and medics are facing accusations of lack of
oversight and procedure lapses.
The 79-page military report concluded that detainee Adnan Farhan
Abdul Latif had ingested 24 capsules of an anti-psychotic drug known
as Invega, prescribed for mental illness, and a mix of other narcoticsunassisted.
Latif was found dead in his cell on September 8, 2012, at the
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility after being locked up for
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the
watchful eyes of military police during in-processing to the
temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray of Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay (Reuters / Stringer)
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over a decade.
An autopsy found codeine, oxycodone and lorazepam among a total
of nine narcotics in his body. All of the medication was prescribed by
prison doctors to help the detainee with his ongoing mental and
physical illnesses.
It was also discovered that Latif had pneumonia at the time of hisdeath.
The report highlighted operational lapses, including guards and
medical personnel not following procedure when distributing pills
and in overseeing the consumption of the prescribed dosage.
Also, the guards broke the rules when they failed to check on Latif in
his cell through two shift changes.
The report fails to establish exactly how Latif was able to hoard large
dosages of the drug over several weeks and how he was able to
move them when he was transferred to a new cell the day before he
died.
Latif's lawyer David Remes suggested that a guard might have
slipped the drugs to the deceased and pointed out that the
investigators did not interview detainee witnesses.
The report mentioned that the guards did not search Latifs copy of
the Koran. Neither did they search something else that was redactedfrom the report, which was possibly referring to private areas on his
body, the New York Times quoted a source close to the investigation
as saying.
Detainees participate in an early morning prayer session at Camp IV
at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base (Reuters
/ Deborah Gembara)
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The report was released by the military after a Freedom of
Information Act request by Jason Leopold, who has written for Truth-
out.org and Al Jazeera.
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The report describes Latif , who was in his 30s at the time of his death,
as a detainee with disciplinary issues and a series of cognitive andpsychiatric problems, including bipolar disorder and borderline
personality disorder with antisocial traits.
He is said to have suffered manic periods of hyperactivity (jumping
for hours in his cell, doing backflips off the wall). Latif talked about
wanting to die and since 2003 he repeatedly tried to harm himself
including incidents of head-banging, wrist-cutting, choking, ingestion
of inedible items and hanging.
Latifs anguish began once he was brought into Guantanamo with one
blind eye and a traumatic brain injury, as well as the prison guards
efforts to deal with his attempts to hurt himself.
The deceased was among the first detainees taken to the prison after
being captured at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in December 2001
following the US and NATO invasion of Afghanistan.
Latif explained that he was going to Afghanistan to get free medical
care for his head and eye injuries received in a car crash in 1994, andwas supposed to meet a fellow countryman who worked at a charity
organization. Later Guantanamo doctors confirmed that the
detainees blindness was consistent with a traumatic injury.
He was able to challenge his detention as the US District Court in
Washington in July 2010 ruled that he could be released from prison,
In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, and shot through glass, a
guard watches over Guantanamo detainees inside the exercise yard
at Camp 5 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base,Cuba (Reuters / Brennan Linsley)
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but in 2011 Washington overruled that decision, arguing that Latif
was an Al-Qaeda combatant recruited and trained in Afghanistan by
the Taliban.
The report specified that Latifs final downward spiral ofbehavior
began in June 2012, when he was told in a phone call with his lawyer
that the Supreme Court had declined to hear his appeal.
Latifdied in solitary confinement in Camp 5, which holds prisoners
who have violated the facility's rules. He had been disciplined for
splashing a guard with a"cocktail," a mixture of food and bodily
fluids.
A spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo told the Washington
Post that the military at the base is committed to providing safe,
lawful and humane custodyfor the 166 individuals detained at
Guantanamo. Steps are being taken to address the challenges identifiedin this investigation.
Remes blames the US prison system for his clients death.
"He was so fragile he was so tormented that it would not surprise me
ifhe had committed suicide," Remes said. "Howeveryou look at it, it
was Guantanamo that killed him."
Remes added that the personnel at Guantanamo appear to have
treated him as a walking drugstore.
The report noted that the day before Latifs suicide, the detainee sent
a letter to his lawyer with the remark to die is better than to live.
Remes could not comment on the letter because the military has
deemed it classified.
Military statistics revealed that a total of seven detainees have
committed suicide while they were held at Guantanamo.
A mass hunger strike has been unfolding in the notorious
Guantanamo Bay prison for over three months now.
As of Friday there are 106 out of 166 detainees on hunger strike, with
44 being forced-fed, deputy director of Guantanamo public affairs
Lieutenant Colonel, Samuel E. House told RT.
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Anonymous user29.06.2013 18:15He moved them, by shoving them up his butt. It's called
"suitcasing&quo t; in jail parlance. Oh well.
Anonymous user29.06.2013 18:09good one less evil doer in this world
Anonymous user29.06.2013 17:52This is a glimpse of the h3ll that awaits us all unless we stop
zionism.
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