Gitmo Eyeball 16 June 2006

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16 June 2006
Detainee Remains Repatriation Announced
The Department of Defense announced today that it repatriated remains of three detainees who died of apparent suicides on June 10, 2006, from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Two Saudis and one Yemeni, each located in Camp 1, were found unresponsive and not breathing in their cells by guards. Medical teams responded quickly and all three detainees were provided immediate emergency medical treatment in attempts to revive them. The U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service has initiated an investigation, per standard operating procedure, to determine the cause and manner of death.
The remains of the deceased detainees have been treated with the utmost respect. A cultural advisor has assisted Joint Task Force Guantanamo to ensure that the remains are handled in a culturally and religiously appropriate manner.
Throughout their response to this event, JTF Guantanamo worked diligently to preserve the dignity of the remains and to ensure application of the rituals of the Islamic faith. To ensure these rites were properly observed, a Muslim Imam, U.S. Navy Lt. Saifulislam, was assisted by Muslim members of the command's staff, and supervised all aspects of preparing the remains for transport.
DoD and the Department of State worked closely with the home governments to facilitate the return of the detainee remains as quickly as possible.
Detainees are held at JTF Guantanamo because they are dangerous and continue to pose a threat to the U.S. and our allies. They have expressed a commitment to kill Americans and our friends if released. These are not common criminals, they are enemy combatants being detained because they have waged war against our nation and they continue to pose a threat.

Captions by Associated Press

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Guards lead a detainee to a cell at the Camp Delta detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, June 13, 2006. Three detainees at the camp were found dead Saturday after they committed suicide by hanging themselves. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin)
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A guard keeps watch over the Camp Delta detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, Tuesday, June 13, 2006. Three detainees at the camp were found dead Saturday after they committed suicide by hanging themselves. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, TV OUT, NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY, NO SALES **

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** FILE ** In this April 5, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, military personnel transport a detainee into a building within the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, May 15, 2006, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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** FILE ** In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, a detainee walks and others sit, as a guard looks on standing next to a hut, within the fenced in grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Three detainees at Guantanamo Bay apparently committed suicide amid protests of the U.S. military prison by inmates, the Defense Department said Saturday June 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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**FILE** In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee, name, nationality, and facial identification not permitted, prays inside the compound of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, FILE)
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In this April 5, 2006 photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, military personnel transport a detainee into a building within the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. More Guantanamo Bay detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday, June 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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** FILE ** In this April 5, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a soldier opens a gate on the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, May 15, 2006, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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** FILE ** In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, three detainees stand in a doorway to a cell on the grounds of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)

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**FILE** In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by US military officials, the central cellblock passage is pictured without detainees present, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
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**FILE** In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by US military officials, the central cellblock passage of cells is pictured without detainees present, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

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In this photo, reviewed by US military officials, a few of the standard items available to a "compliant" detainee, including a short toothbrush, clear toothpaste, soap, and a Muslim cap, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Thursday, April 6, 2006. At a military trial in Guantanamo Friday, a military defense attorney for an alleged bodyguard of Osama bin Laden argued to the judge that the man should be allowed to defend himself, a month after the defendant rejected the attorney, saying he was the enemy. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
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In this photo, reviewed by US military officials, from the central cellblock passage, a cell is visible at right with it's items available to a "compliant" detainee, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. At a military trial in Guantanamo Friday, an alleged bodyguard of Osama bin Laden should be allowed to defend himself, his military defense attorney argued to the judge Friday, a month after the defendant rejected the attorney, saying he was the enemy. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)

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** FILE ** In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee stands peering through the grill in a closed cell door, on the grounds of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)
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In this photo, reviewed by US military officials, a detainee, name and facial identification not permitted, is transported by Navy personnel into a building within the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. Also at Guantanamo Wednesday, shouting punctuated a military hearing, closed off to cameras, for a Canadian detainee accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan as the judge and a defense attorney clashed about rules for the proceedings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)

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In this photo reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee and an American are pictured on the grounds of the medium security portion of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
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A Coast Guard Viper Boat team patrols in two boats at the end of the day, around Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)

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In this photo reviewed by U.S. Military officials, detainees sit together inside the medium security portion of Camp Delta dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
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In this photo reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee talks with another, while one man reads in the background inside the grounds of the medium security portion of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)

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In this photo reviewed by US military officials, two detainees walk outside their cell in Camp Delta 4, a medium security facility, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, June 30, 2004. In 2,733 pages of declassified documents released Monday, April 3, 2006 to The Associated Press, men accused of helping terrorist groups or Afghanistan's former Taliban regime pleaded for their freedom while U.S. military officers often painstakingly tried to find holes in their stories. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
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In this photo reviewed by US military officials, a detainee washes his hands before praying inside his cell in Camp Delta at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, June 30, 2004. In 2,733 pages of declassified documents released Monday, April 3, 2006 to The Associated Press, men accused of helping terrorist groups or Afghanistan's former Taliban regime pleaded for their freedom while U.S. military officers often painstakingly tried to find holes in their stories. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

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U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jeremy Martin talks to the press at Camp Delta Four, the medium security facility for compliant detainees, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006. Military prosecutors at this U.S. naval base geared up Tuesday for hearings for a Canadian teenager accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, while his defense attorney called the process a "sham." (AP Photo/Michelle Shephard, Pool)
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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, an unidentified detainee is escorted by two military guards at Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)

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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., is served a typical enemy combatant detainees meal by an unidentified mess hall worker at Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The lunch meal included bread, a chicken breast in orange sauce, rice and okra. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)
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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, two unidentified detainees read a sign at Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)

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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, commanding general of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, right, escorts a Congressional delegation into Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)
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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, an unidentified soldier watches over Camp Delta from a guard tower, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)

Captions by Associated Press
Guards lead a detainee to a cell at the Camp Delta detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, June 13, 2006. Three detainees at the camp were found dead Saturday after they committed suicide by hanging themselves. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin)	A guard keeps watch over the Camp Delta detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, Tuesday, June 13, 2006. Three detainees at the camp were found dead Saturday after they committed suicide by hanging themselves. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, TV OUT, NEWSPAPER INTERNET ONLY, NO SALES
FILE In this April 5, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, military personnel transport a detainee into a building within the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, May 15, 2006, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	FILE In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, a detainee walks and others sit, as a guard looks on standing next to a hut, within the fenced in grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Three detainees at Guantanamo Bay apparently committed suicide amid protests of the U.S. military prison by inmates, the Defense Department said Saturday June 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
FILE In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee, name, nationality, and facial identification not permitted, prays inside the compound of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, FILE)	In this April 5, 2006 photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, military personnel transport a detainee into a building within the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. More Guantanamo Bay detainees have joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday, June 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
FILE In this April 5, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a soldier opens a gate on the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, May 15, 2006, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)	FILE In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, three detainees stand in a doorway to a cell on the grounds of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)
FILE In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by US military officials, the central cellblock passage is pictured without detainees present, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)	FILE In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by US military officials, the central cellblock passage of cells is pictured without detainees present, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)
In this photo, reviewed by US military officials, a few of the standard items available to a "compliant" detainee, including a short toothbrush, clear toothpaste, soap, and a Muslim cap, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Thursday, April 6, 2006. At a military trial in Guantanamo Friday, a military defense attorney for an alleged bodyguard of Osama bin Laden argued to the judge that the man should be allowed to defend himself, a month after the defendant rejected the attorney, saying he was the enemy. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)	In this photo, reviewed by US military officials, from the central cellblock passage, a cell is visible at right with it's items available to a "compliant" detainee, at Camp Delta 2 & 3 maximum security dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. At a military trial in Guantanamo Friday, an alleged bodyguard of Osama bin Laden should be allowed to defend himself, his military defense attorney argued to the judge Friday, a month after the defendant rejected the attorney, saying he was the enemy. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
FILE In this April 6, 2006 file photo, reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee stands peering through the grill in a closed cell door, on the grounds of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. On Monday, the Associated Press received a list from the Pentagon which is purported to be the first complete list of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, more than four years after it opened the detention center in Cuba. Few of the most notorious terrorist suspects are included however, raising questions about where America's most dangerous prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)	In this photo, reviewed by US military officials, a detainee, name and facial identification not permitted, is transported by Navy personnel into a building within the grounds of the maximum security prison at Camp Delta 2 & 3, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. Also at Guantanamo Wednesday, shouting punctuated a military hearing, closed off to cameras, for a Canadian detainee accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan as the judge and a defense attorney clashed about rules for the proceedings. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
In this photo reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee and an American are pictured on the grounds of the medium security portion of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)	A Coast Guard Viper Boat team patrols in two boats at the end of the day, around Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
In this photo reviewed by U.S. Military officials, detainees sit together inside the medium security portion of Camp Delta dentention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)	In this photo reviewed by U.S. Military officials, a detainee talks with another, while one man reads in the background inside the grounds of the medium security portion of Camp Delta detention center, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
In this photo reviewed by US military officials, two detainees walk outside their cell in Camp Delta 4, a medium security facility, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, June 30, 2004. In 2,733 pages of declassified documents released Monday, April 3, 2006 to The Associated Press, men accused of helping terrorist groups or Afghanistan's former Taliban regime pleaded for their freedom while U.S. military officers often painstakingly tried to find holes in their stories. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)	In this photo reviewed by US military officials, a detainee washes his hands before praying inside his cell in Camp Delta at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, June 30, 2004. In 2,733 pages of declassified documents released Monday, April 3, 2006 to The Associated Press, men accused of helping terrorist groups or Afghanistan's former Taliban regime pleaded for their freedom while U.S. military officers often painstakingly tried to find holes in their stories. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jeremy Martin talks to the press at Camp Delta Four, the medium security facility for compliant detainees, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006. Military prosecutors at this U.S. naval base geared up Tuesday for hearings for a Canadian teenager accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, while his defense attorney called the process a "sham." (AP Photo/Michelle Shephard, Pool)	In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, an unidentified detainee is escorted by two military guards at Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)
In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., is served a typical enemy combatant detainees meal by an unidentified mess hall worker at Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The lunch meal included bread, a chicken breast in orange sauce, rice and okra. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)	In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, two unidentified detainees read a sign at Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)
In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, commanding general of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, right, escorts a Congressional delegation into Camp Delta, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)	In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, an unidentified soldier watches over Camp Delta from a guard tower, Saturday, June 25, 2005 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)