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The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says. "They are smart. They are creative, they are committed," he said. "They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."

Others say; If it's perfectly legal and there's nothing going wrong there - well, why don't they have it in America? Harriet Harman UK Constitutional Affairs Minister

Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch in New York, told the BBC the men had probably been driven by despair. "These people are despairing because they are being held lawlessly," he said. "There's no end in sight. They're not being brought before any independent judges. They're not being charged and convicted for any crime."

Imagine how you would feel if your countrymen were afforded the same rights as those held for nearly four years without charge. I have no doubt that some of those held at Guantanamo are guilty of terrorism - but if you cant prove the guilty from the innocent - how long can this go on?

The fact that the US chooses to detain these men without conviction, far from the protection US Law offers, is a sad inditement on the Bush administration. History will not serve him well.

And so now suicide is an act of war?