Military Faults Guards In Guantánamo Captive's Suicide By Overdose

Adnan Latif This undated handout photo provided by Marc Falkoff, an attorney representing Adnan Latif shows Latif, the Guantanamo prisoner who was found unconscious in his cell on Saturday, Sept. 8. 2012 and later declared dead at a hospital on the U.S. base in Cuba. Latif, a 32-year-old from Yemen, had been held at Guantanamo without charge since January 2002. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Marc Falkoff)

The Miami Herald:

A U.S. military investigation found Guantanamo troops didn't follow their own rules, allowing a captive to take a fatal overdose of an anti-psychotic drug a day after he was moved into a disciplinary cell from the detention center's psychiatric ward.

A 79-page report, released Friday under the Freedom of Information Act, showed the "standard operating procedures," or SOP, governing the U.S. Army Military Police required soldiers to regularly check on captives kept in solitary cells at Camp 5, Guantanamo's maximum-security lockup.

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