When Suicides Aren't?

This is getting more complicated. Did the Gitmo detainees really kill themselves?

I saw this little item.

Relatives of two Saudi detainees who died at Guantanamo Bay said the men could not have committed suicide as the U.S. military reported, because they are strict Muslims, newspapers said on Monday.

Islam prohibits suicide and sets out harsh punishments in the after-life for those who take their own lives. The men's families said they had probably been killed.

Saudi Arabia, a staunch U.S. ally, identified the two Saudis as Manei al-Otaibi and Yasser al-Zahrani and said it was working on the repatriation of their bodies. The kingdom did not say how the men died but the U.S. military said the detainees, along with a Yemeni man, had hanged themselves.

"I am confident my son did not commit suicide," Talal al-Zahrani, Yasser's father, told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper. "The story of the U.S. administration is a lie."

Then I ran into this.

The lawyer defending Saudi detainees in Guantanamo camp cast doubt Sunday on the US narrative that three detainees died after committing suicide, charging that their death is a 'crime' committed by US authorities.

'(The narrative that the inmates died) as a result of suicide is highly dubious, especially that their deaths came under exceptional detention conditions through which the US authorities practice unbridled and continuous monitoring of detainees' Kateb al-Shamary said in a statement.

US authorities detaining them should take responsibility for their deaths regardless of the cause and called for an independent committee to investigate the fatalities, he said.

Obviously an investigation is called for, especially in light of all the lies Americans and the world have been told.