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Important post-script to this one: The U.S. military, however, thinks Dossari is a terrorist with ties to al-Qaeda, and he has been deemed an enemy combatant. U.S. officials cite Dossari's alleged ties to terrorist cells in the United States and they think he was at Tora Bora, an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, before his arrest.

Don't most prisoners profess innocence? One must be careful NOT to be conned, even if the writer is especially eloquent.

Dossari, 32, a Bahraini national, was not successful in committing suicide after writing this amazing letter. His friend, the lawyer to whom he wrote this, found him hanging limp in a cell where he had supposedly gone to use the bathroom. He had made a makeshift noose and cut open one arm. He has tried to kill himself twice since this October attempt, telling his lawyers that the indefinite nature of his detention and his lack of interaction with other people were causing him a deepening depression.

The U.S. government refuses to release the second page of this letter which Dossari caked with his own blood.
 

In New York, onMarch 15, 2006, attorneys representing Guantánamo detainees at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) reacted to the first detainee suicide letter ever declassified by the U.S. Government, blasting the Bush Administration for driving detainees to suicide through indefinite detentions, mistreatment and torture at the base. The shocking letter by Jumah Al Dossari, a Bahraini national whose attorney found him hanging by his neck in a suicide attempt at Guantánamo in October 2005, describes how the horrific conditions of Jumah’s confinement and indefinite detention drove him to try to take his own life. In his letter, Jumah seeks to make his “voice heard by the world from the depths of the detention centers” and implores the “fair people of America to look again at the situation and try to have a moment of truth…”
"This disturbing new letter reveals a man brought to the brink of self-destruction because of the government's inhumane policies of indefinite detention and mistreatment - affecting hundreds of people who have not been accused of a crime or even afforded the most basic due process in court," said CCR Deputy Legal Director Barbara Olshansky.

"Jumah's letter is a haunting reminder of the meeting I had with him just before he slashed and hung himself. Jumah had repeatedly begged us to get him out of isolation. Because our request to the court for this relief was denied on technical grounds, we implored the military to hold Jumah under more humane conditions, and we continue to do so. Our grave fear is that if the military persists in denying our requests, Jumah, who by the military's own count has tried to kill himself ten times in U.S. custody, will not survive Guantanamo," said Joshua Colangelo-Bryan of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, co-counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights for Jumah.

On March 22, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear oral argument relating to the government's motion to dismiss Jumah's case and those of all other Guantanamo detainees.

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
 

"On March 22, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear oral argument relating to the government's motion to dismiss Jumah's case and those of all other Guantanamo detainees." So, any idea if this is underway, as planned for the 22nd?
 

Here's an interesting reality check from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: "War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts," Scalia said, "Give me a break."
Scalia was challenged by an audience member in Switzerland about whether Guantanamo detainees have protection under the Geneva or human rights conventions. He shot back: "If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son, and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it's crazy." (Newsweek).

Scalia's son Matthew, served in Iraq.
 

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