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Turabn move fails to halt hunger strikers
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NEARLY 90 al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Camp X-Ray in Cuba
were still believed to be on hunger strike today, despite a
concession by their American guards over the wearing of turbans.
Incensed that two guards stripped a detainee of his turban during
prayer, nearly two-thirds of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base in Cuba refused lunch yesterday and chanted: "God is great" in
Arabic, in their first mass protest since arriving at the base.
In addition, some detainees pushed sheets, blankets, sleeping mats
and other items through the small openings in the chain-link walls of
their ...
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