Sound of guns

Easily the most inventive press release of 2006.

Three detainees have died at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in what the
U.S. military said was "an act of … warfare" against the United States.

Two men from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen were found "unresponsive and
not breathing in their cells" early Saturday after they apparently
committed suicide by hanging themselves with clothing and bedsheets.

Military officials said they attempted to revive the prisoners, without
success.

They were the first reported deaths at the detention centre for suspected
terrorists. There have been 34 suicide attempts since January 2002. In
2003 alone, there were 350 incidents of self-harm, including 130 so-called
hanging gestures.

"They are smart. They are creative, they are committed," Rear Admiral
Harry Harris, commander of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo, told Reuters.
"They have no regard for life, either ours or their own."

Harris added that the suicides were "clearly a planned event, not a
spontaneous event … I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an
act of … warfare waged against us."