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– GITMO INMATE “KILLED HIMSELF”

A Yemeni detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, Muhammad Ahmad  Abdallah Saleh, has died in an “apparent suicide,” US military officials said on Tuesday 06/02/2009.

Guards found 31-year-old Muhammad  Abdallah Saleh unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Monday night, the military said.

“Medical personnel were immediately summoned by the guard force. After extensive lifesaving measures had been exhausted, the detainee was pronounced dead by a physician,” the US military said in a statement on Tuesday.

Muhammad  Abdallah Saleh is the fifth detainee held at the Guantanamo detention centre to commit suicide. The Yemeni prisoner, known as al-Hanashi, had been held without charge at the camp since February 2002.

Muhammad  Abdallah Saleh had travelled Afghanistan in 2001 and joined the Taliban, according to declassified US military documents. He later said he was to forced to fight by the group and denied any link to Al Qaeda, the documents say.

 

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