Lawyers for four Guantanamo captives are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C., to put an end to the "grotesque" practice of force-feeding at the Pentagon prison in southeast Cuba. The U.S. military defends the use of forced-feeding as modeled after U.S. Bureau of Prisons policy. But the lawyers argue that, unlike federal prisoners, these Guantanamo captives have never been charged with a crime and are held not for punishment but indefinitely as war-on-terror detainees. "I am doing this because I want to know my destiny," Algerian detainee Nabil Hadjarab, 33, says in an accompanying...
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