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A Bahraini man being held at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects attempted
suicide this week for the ninth time and has begun a hunger strike, according
to newly released court documents.
Juma'a Mohammed al-Dossary tried to kill himself Monday by pulling out sutures
on an arm wound he inflicted on himself a month earlier, the chief medical officer
at Guantanamo, Dr. John Edmondson, said in an affidavit filed in federal court
in Washington.
Al-Dossary, who has been held since February 2002, also began a hunger strike
in the first week of November to protest not being included in a group of Bahrainis
released from Guantanamo, Edmondson said.
It was the fourth suicide attempt in 20 months at Guantanamo.
