Guantanamo is driving detainees crazy

jklugman

4-26-2008 8:08 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e0e10ef6-9dfe-4c46-af14-03d7e46b39b2/6B6D4987-474F-4C30-BB04-BCB9F73A9035/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209211489-pASOmt7EAwg2pvd9wHbrwQ&pagewanted=print" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209211489-pASOmt7EAwg2pvd9wHbrwQ&pagewanted=print" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209211489-pASOmt7EAwg2pvd9wHbrwQ&pagewanted=print"><P>Next month, <A title="More articles about Salim Ahmed Hamdan." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/salim_ahmed_hamdan/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Salim Ahmed Hamdan</A>, a Yemeni who was once a driver for <A title="More articles about Osama bin Laden." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/osama_bin_laden/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Osama bin Laden</A>, could become the first detainee to be tried for war crimes in <A title="More news and information about Guantánamo." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions/guantanamobaynavalbasecuba/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Guantánamo Bay</A>, Cuba. By now, he should be busily working on his defense. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209211489-pASOmt7EAwg2pvd9wHbrwQ&pagewanted=print"><P>But his lawyers say he cannot. They say Mr. Hamdan has essentially been driven crazy by solitary confinement in an 8-foot-by-12-foot cell where he spends at least 22 hours a day, goes to the bathroom and eats all his meals. His defense team says he is suicidal, hears voices, has flashbacks, talks to himself and says the restrictions of Guantánamo “boil his mind.” </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209211489-pASOmt7EAwg2pvd9wHbrwQ&pagewanted=print"><P>“He will shout at us,” said his military defense lawyer, Lt. Cmdr. Brian L. Mizer. “He will bang his fists on the table.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209211489-pASOmt7EAwg2pvd9wHbrwQ&pagewanted=print">His lawyers have asked a military judge to stop his case until Mr. Hamdan is placed in less restrictive conditions at Guantánamo, saying he cannot get a fair trial if he cannot focus on defending himself. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6B6D4987-474F-4C30-BB04-BCB9F73A9035/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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