Monday, September 10, 2012

Detainee Found Dead At The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility

A Navy officer, center, and two Army officers enter Camp VI at the detention center at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Walter Michot / Miami Herald / MCT / August 6, 2012)

Pentagon: Guantanamo Detainee Dies; Eighth Fatality At Facility -- L.A. Times

The Pentagon said Monday that a prisoner died at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on Saturday, the eighth fatality at the prison for terrorism suspects since it opened more than a decade ago.

Authorities were withholding the name, nationality and age of the detainee pending notification of his family, according to a statement issued by Joint Task Force Guantanamo at the U.S. naval base in southern Cuba. An autopsy was planned, the statement said, and there was no immediate report on the suspected cause of death.

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More News On The Death Of A Prisoner At The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility

Ninth prisoner dies at Guantanamo -- AP
Guantanamo prisoner found dead, U.S. military says -- Reuters
Detainee Dies at Guantánamo Prison -- New York Times
Another death at Guantanamo -- Politico
Detainee dies at Guantanamo Bay -- CNN
Detainee dies at Guantanamo: US military -- AFP
Military: Detainee found dead at Guantánamo -- McClatchy News

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