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from the comments, tx edsdet

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"Something I posted a couple of months ago:

The lashing the RUC and the British took in '80-'81 as the world witnessed the Blanket Men at Long Kesh and the women of Armagh prison in solidarity with each other, reached a crecendo in the 2nd strike in March of '81. By August, ten were dead including Bobby Sands, the first to die.

It effectively began a new era for the republican (Irish, that is) challenge to British oppression, injustice, and in fact terrorism in the North.

Just as the insurgency in Iraq has made transitional phases, the Gitmo Ice Blocks may have shifted into a new paradigm outside of any 'quaint' considerations of the Geneva Convention, international treaty, military tribunals and flip-flopped court rulings here. All legal bets are off when prisoners collude to refuse nourishment. It becomes a frightfully difficult situation to white-wash and manage with the rest of the world.

This is a flushed Q'uran that will back up the entire sewer all the way to Abu Ghraib and will further mark this camp as a huge liability that needs to close ASAP before its indefensibility as a tool in the war on terror wracks what's left of any chance to salvage our image to the watching Islamic world."