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Officer Won't Force-Feed Gitmo Prisoners

TAKING A STAND

First known rebellion.

In an act of conscientious objection, a Navy medical officer has refused to continue force-feeding the prisoners on an 18-month hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. It's the first known rebellion against the detention center's force feeding policy, but the prison spokesman said it had "no impact to medical support operations at the base." The report leaked out when prisoner Abu Wael Dhiab called his attorney and described how a nurse refused to force feed them and then disappeared from the posting.

Read it at The Miami Herald