Well, Now, Here's Some Good News
All this time I've been worrying about the plight of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay I should have spent in more productive activities, like rearranging my sock drawer. It seems, according to this AP report, that those detainees are easing into an American lifestyle.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A high-calorie diet combined with life in the cell block - almost around the clock in some cases - is making detainees at Guantanamo Bay fat.
Meals totaling a whopping 4,200 calories per day are brought to their cells, well above the 2,000 to 3,000 calories recommended for weight maintenance by U.S. government dietary guidelines. And some inmates are eating everything on the menu.
One detainee has almost doubled in weight, to 410 pounds, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, spokesman for the detention facilities at Guantanamo, a U.S. Navy station in southeast Cuba.
Human rights groups attribute the weight gain to lack of exercise. They cite accounts of released detainees who complained they were allowed to exercise fewer than three times a week outside their small cells.
It seems that the buffet line doesn't make it clear that the detainees don't have to pick every available selection, so many of the detainees do pick every possible selection. I'm sure boredom has nothing to do with that.
And exercise? Why, that's so pre-9/11. The international law which requires 2 hours daily out of the cells for exercise is just too...well, too quaint. What American engages in such activity?
Those dudes have it so good, why would they even consider challenging their detention in a US court?
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A high-calorie diet combined with life in the cell block - almost around the clock in some cases - is making detainees at Guantanamo Bay fat.
Meals totaling a whopping 4,200 calories per day are brought to their cells, well above the 2,000 to 3,000 calories recommended for weight maintenance by U.S. government dietary guidelines. And some inmates are eating everything on the menu.
One detainee has almost doubled in weight, to 410 pounds, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, spokesman for the detention facilities at Guantanamo, a U.S. Navy station in southeast Cuba.
Human rights groups attribute the weight gain to lack of exercise. They cite accounts of released detainees who complained they were allowed to exercise fewer than three times a week outside their small cells.
It seems that the buffet line doesn't make it clear that the detainees don't have to pick every available selection, so many of the detainees do pick every possible selection. I'm sure boredom has nothing to do with that.
And exercise? Why, that's so pre-9/11. The international law which requires 2 hours daily out of the cells for exercise is just too...well, too quaint. What American engages in such activity?
Those dudes have it so good, why would they even consider challenging their detention in a US court?
posted by Diane at 5:18 AM
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