Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose
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Military faults guards in Guantánamo captive's suicide by overdose
By CAROL ROSENBERG
Posted on Friday, 06.28.13
A U.S. military investigation found Guantánamo troops didnt follow their own rules, allowing a captive to take a fatal overdose of an anti-psychotic drug a day after he was moved into a disciplinary cell from the detention centers psychiatric ward.
A 79-page report, released Friday under the Freedom of Information Act, showed the standard operating procedures, or SOP, governing the U.S. Army Military Police required soldiers to regularly check on captives kept in solitary cells at Camp 5, Guantánamos maximum-security lockup.
Troops didnt do it for at least two shift changes before Yemeni captive Adnan Latif was discovered dead on the floor of his Camp 5 cell at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba on Sept. 8, 2012.
Rather than check on him, Guantánamo troops thought they were letting him sleep for about 15 hours through a 4 a.m. medication call, the 4:55 a.m. pre-dawn prayer, breakfast, lunch, offers of two hours in a prison recreation yard and the noon call to prayer.