Today marks the 411th day of Guantanamo prisoners' hunger strike.
Currently, [Rear Admiral Richard] Butler said, the prison tracks "up to a couple dozen detainees" as those who won't eat, have become so malnourished they require tube feedings or have related weight-loss health risks...
Separately, a different prison official who functions as Butler's Islamic cultural adviser estimated that since the military imposed a blackout on daily disclosures 10 to 15 captives refuse to eat on any given day.
Under new prison rules for "VIP feeders," up to five prisoners are allowed to sit together inside a "fast room" and request the Navy medic to slow or speed up the flow of Ensure through their nose... such are the much-lauded humanitarian initiatives at America's premiere concentration camp.
The prison requires that captives stop calling themselves hunger strikers as a condition of release from lockdown.
