Europeans are jumping up and down calling for Gitmo to be shuttered after three inmates -- including a 21-year-old, Yassar Talal Al-Zahrani, who had been imprisoned since he was 18, and one, Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi, who was slated to be released, unbeknownst to him -- at the U.S. permanent-ish outdoor detention center hanged themselves over the weekend.
LONDON (Reuters) - Europeans seized on the suicides of Guantanamo prisoners as more proof the U.S. camp should be closed, and a top U.S. official on Monday disowned a colleague's comment that the deaths were a "good PR move".
Two Saudis and a Yemeni hanged themselves with clothes and bedsheets in their cells on Saturday, the first prisoners to die at Guantanamo since the United States began sending suspected al Qaeda and Taliban captives there in 2002.
"Guantanamo should be closed. This is an occasion to reiterate that statement," EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told reporters on arrival at a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
The prisoners apparently tricked their jailors and secreted themselves in their cells in order to commit suicide, which is leading to questions about just how long they had been left there unsupervised.
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