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Three Guantanamo Bay detainees hanged themselves using nooses made of sheets and clothes, the commander of the detention centre said, in the first reported deaths among hundreds of men held at the base.

The suicides, which military officials said were coordinated,triggered further condemnation of the isolated detention centre,which holds some 460 men, including Australian David Hicks, on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Only 10 have been charged with crimes and there has been growing international pressure on the US to close the prison.

Two men from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen were found dead shortly after midnight today in separate cells, said the Miami-based US Southern Command, which has jurisdiction over the prison. Attempts were made to revive them, but they failed.

"They hung themselves with fabricated nooses made out of clothes and bed sheets," base commander Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris told reporters in a conference call from the US base in southeastern Cuba.

"They have no regard for human life," he said. "Neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us."

The italics are mine. If this dipshit Harris (and by the way, does Rear Admiral denote a lifestyle choice?) hasn't got the nous to figure it out, people commit suicide when they lose all hope. And as for (*repugnant neologism alert*) asymmetric warfare, surely there is no warfare as asymmetric as extraordinary rendition. Harris, like his repugnant master, is a war criminal.