Protests By Guantanamo Prisoners On Hold For Now

Col. Bruce Vargo, the joint detention group commander at Guantánamo Bay, gives a tour of a detainee holding cell to Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Jan. 13, 2008. During his stop, Mullen held an all-hands call with service members stationed on the island and visited detention facilities and the new expeditionary legal complex that will be used to try high-value combatants detained in the global war on terrorism. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)

Stinky Prison Camp Standoff Over -- Miami Herald

Credit a combination of peer pressure and guard cajoling with ending a stomach-wrenching summertime protest inside the Pentagon’s maximum-security prison in southeast Cuba.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The waste war is over — for now.

War on terror captives are no longer smearing their cells with feces in a stomach-wrenching power struggle with the guards at the maximum security Camp 5 lockup on this remote navy base.

“That phase stopped in the last month or so,” said Army Col. Donnie Thomas in a Sept. 13 interview, noting the protest tactic “ebbs and flows.”

Mimicking a tactic once used by hundreds of Irish Republican Army prisoners in the 1970s, an undisclosed number of captives had been smearing their own excrement into the ventilation grates of their single-occupancy cells, causing it to waft through the cellblocks. The Miami Herald first learned of the episode in June when advocates for some of the captives encountered an awful odor on a site visit.

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My Comment: I feel for the cleaning staff.