A delegation from Afghanistan spent ten days at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay and pronounced conditions at the facility 'humane':

The head of the delegation, Abdul Jabar Sabhet of the Interior Ministry, said the delegation was given the chance to speak freely with all 96 Afghan prisoners about their living conditions. Sabhet said there were "only one or two" complaints.

"Conditions of the jail was humane. There were rumors in this country about that. It was wrong. What we have seen was OK," he said.

Sabhet's assessment comes five days after the suicides of three detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

Much has been made of the three suicides last week at Gitmo. While any suicides should be investigated, it is plain to see that the men involved took their own lives as a protest, a means of generating publicity for the overall cause. The US had stopped several such attempts in the past, and will continue to do whatever possible to save lives within the facility. This is no different than at any other American prison; suicide rates in prisons are three times higher than among the general population, and ten times higher in pre-trial detention facilities. We do not shut down our jails and prisons because inmates in either place sometimes commit suicide, and that should not be a determinative factor in Giitmo's status either.

In fact, this shows that the US has operated the Guantanamo facility in an orderly and humane manner. Even when given the opportunity to speak to the Afghan government, 96 inmates only voiced "one or two" complaints. The delegation came looking for inhumane conditions, by their own admission, but found nothing.

How many outlets do you think will carry this wire report?

UPDATE: Some commenters have expressed indignation that I would assume that Islamists committing suicide are a form of protest. Hmmm. Perhaps they have a point. After all, who has ever heard of Islamists committing suicide as protest before? After all, it's not like the Gitmo detainees tried using suicide as a tactic for a revolt before ...

All of this wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Left is intended to distract from the Afghan delegation's evaluation of the detention facility, which contradicts every allegation the Left has leveled against the Gitmo detention center.

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