Afghan detainee dies after exercise at Guantanamo

[Casino67]

Yahoo News:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A 48-year-old Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay collapsed and died, apparently from natural causes, after exercising inside the jail, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Awal Gul fell in the shower Tuesday night after working out on an elliptical machine in Camp 6, a communal section of the Guantanamo reserved for well-behaved prisoners, said military spokesman Army Col. Scott Malcom. The prisoner was taken to the base hospital, where he later died.

Authorities planned to send his remains back to Afghanistan.

Gul is the seventh prisoner to die at the detention center since January 2002, when the U.S. began using the American Navy base in southeastern Cuba to hold captured detainees suspected of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Five other deaths were declared suicides. Another was from colon cancer.

Malcom said the death was still under investigation but that an autopsy completed Thursday appeared to indicate a heart attack or a pulmonary embolism as the cause. He said U.S. patient privacy laws prevented him from discussing any details about Gul's medical history.

[SrWoodchuck]

Casino67!

 

Question: How many virgins when you die.......as a martyr to an exercise machine?

[Pepper]

Gul is the seventh prisoner to die at the detention center since January 2002,

 

The system is working.

 

If we add no new prisoners, eventually it will be closed and Zero will have achieved his commitment.

[Valin]

This is why I never exercise.

 

"They say hard work never hurt anyone, but I say why take the chance."

R. Reagan