THREE Muslims said to have committed suicide in a Guantanamo Bay prison would not have violated Islam by taking their own lives and must have been killed by their US captors, the Taliban said today.
"We can't accept that they have committed suicide," a purported spokesman for the Islamist Taliban movement in Afghanistan, Mohammad Hanif, said. "No Muslim, no mujahid (holy warrior), can commit suicide. It's banned under Islamic Sharia law," said Hanif, who is often in contact with the media from a secret location.
| You're right. They didn't commit suicide. They were so horny for their 72 raisins that they decided to commit self-jihad. |
The Guantanamo Bay commander said the "war on terror" suspects - a Yemeni and two Saudis - were found dead in their cells yesterday and had hanged themselves with clothes and bed sheets.
Hanif said there a clear difference between committing suicide and carrying out suicide attacks against "infidels". "Those carrying out suicide attacks are targeting infidels," he said, distinguishing this from suicide just to "relieve oneself from suffering".
"The trio, three Arabs, the US says have committed suicide - it is not true. They've been killed by their captors," Hanif said. "A mujahid is committed to struggle to the last moment of his life."
There are some 460 prisoners at the military-run prison in Guantanamo, including about 100 Afghans. Many were captured in Afghanistan after a US-led coalition attacked in November 2001 to overthrow the Taliban regime for sheltering Al-Qaeda. The Afghan Government has been pushing for their freedom and a few dozen have already returned home.
| They want to hang themselves in a Kabul prison, it's no skin off my fore. |
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