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Published time: June 29, 2013 10:44

A Yemeni detainee found dead in

Guantanamo Bay last year committed

suicide by overdosing on antipsychotic

drugs and a mix of other narcotics, a

report revealed. Guards and medics are facing accusations of lack of

oversight and procedure lapses.

The 79-page military report concluded that detainee Adnan Farhan

Abdul Latif had ingested 24 capsules of an anti-psychotic drug known

as Invega, prescribed for mental illness, and a mix of other narcoticsunassisted.

Latif was found dead in his cell on September 8, 2012, at the

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility after being locked up for

Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the

watchful eyes of military police during in-processing to the

temporary detention facility at Camp X-Ray of Naval Base

Guantanamo Bay (Reuters / Stringer)

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over a decade.

An autopsy found codeine, oxycodone and lorazepam among a total

of nine narcotics in his body. All of the medication was prescribed by

prison doctors to help the detainee with his ongoing mental and

physical illnesses.

It was also discovered that Latif had pneumonia at the time of hisdeath.

The report highlighted operational lapses, including guards and

medical personnel not following procedure when distributing pills

and in overseeing the consumption of the prescribed dosage.

Also, the guards broke the rules when they failed to check on Latif in

his cell through two shift changes.

The report fails to establish exactly how Latif was able to hoard large

dosages of the drug over several weeks and how he was able to

move them when he was transferred to a new cell the day before he

died.

Latif's lawyer David Remes suggested that a guard might have

slipped the drugs to the deceased and pointed out that the

investigators did not interview detainee witnesses.

The report mentioned that the guards did not search Latifs copy of

the Koran. Neither did they search something else that was redactedfrom the report, which was possibly referring to private areas on his

body, the New York Times quoted a source close to the investigation

as saying.

Detainees participate in an early morning prayer session at Camp IV

at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base (Reuters

/ Deborah Gembara)


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The report was released by the military after a Freedom of

Information Act request by Jason Leopold, who has written for Truth-

out.org and Al Jazeera.

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The report describes Latif , who was in his 30s at the time of his death,

as a detainee with disciplinary issues and a series of cognitive andpsychiatric problems, including bipolar disorder and borderline

personality disorder with antisocial traits.

He is said to have suffered manic periods of hyperactivity (jumping

for hours in his cell, doing backflips off the wall). Latif talked about

wanting to die and since 2003 he repeatedly tried to harm himself

including incidents of head-banging, wrist-cutting, choking, ingestion

of inedible items and hanging.

Latifs anguish began once he was brought into Guantanamo with one

blind eye and a traumatic brain injury, as well as the prison guards

efforts to deal with his attempts to hurt himself.

The deceased was among the first detainees taken to the prison after

being captured at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in December 2001

following the US and NATO invasion of Afghanistan.

Latif explained that he was going to Afghanistan to get free medical

care for his head and eye injuries received in a car crash in 1994, andwas supposed to meet a fellow countryman who worked at a charity

organization. Later Guantanamo doctors confirmed that the

detainees blindness was consistent with a traumatic injury.

He was able to challenge his detention as the US District Court in

Washington in July 2010 ruled that he could be released from prison,

In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, and shot through glass, a

guard watches over Guantanamo detainees inside the exercise yard

at Camp 5 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base,Cuba (Reuters / Brennan Linsley)


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but in 2011 Washington overruled that decision, arguing that Latif

was an Al-Qaeda combatant recruited and trained in Afghanistan by

the Taliban.

The report specified that Latifs final downward spiral ofbehavior

began in June 2012, when he was told in a phone call with his lawyer

that the Supreme Court had declined to hear his appeal.

Latifdied in solitary confinement in Camp 5, which holds prisoners

who have violated the facility's rules. He had been disciplined for

splashing a guard with a"cocktail," a mixture of food and bodily

fluids.

A spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo told the Washington

Post that the military at the base is committed to providing safe,

lawful and humane custodyfor the 166 individuals detained at

Guantanamo. Steps are being taken to address the challenges identifiedin this investigation.

Remes blames the US prison system for his clients death.

"He was so fragile he was so tormented that it would not surprise me

ifhe had committed suicide," Remes said. "Howeveryou look at it, it

was Guantanamo that killed him."

Remes added that the personnel at Guantanamo appear to have

treated him as a walking drugstore.

The report noted that the day before Latifs suicide, the detainee sent

a letter to his lawyer with the remark to die is better than to live.

Remes could not comment on the letter because the military has

deemed it classified.

Military statistics revealed that a total of seven detainees have

committed suicide while they were held at Guantanamo.

A mass hunger strike has been unfolding in the notorious

Guantanamo Bay prison for over three months now.

As of Friday there are 106 out of 166 detainees on hunger strike, with

44 being forced-fed, deputy director of Guantanamo public affairs

Lieutenant Colonel, Samuel E. House told RT.

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