MIAMI (AFP) - a 37 - year Afghan detainee died at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide, the US military said in a statement.
The man, identified by a name, Inayatullah, was a planner admitted to Al-Qaida terrorist operations, under the command of the South. He arrived in Guantanamo in September 2007.
INAYATULLAH was the eighth to die in Guantanamo since the United States Government began transferring detainees after the eviction of 2001 of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
According to the statement, the Guantanamo guards found the prisoner unresponsive and not breathing in an audit of routine Wednesday. "After that extensive rescue efforts had been exhausted, the prisoner was delivered by a doctor," the command South said.
He added that Inayatullah had met with operators, routes developed travel, accommodation and vehicles for the fighters of Al-Qaeda smuggling via the Afghanistan, the Iran, Pakistan and Iraq and coordinated documentation.
The southern command, said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service will investigate the incident, something, it does with all detainee deaths.
Last year, a U.S. federal judge has dismissed a complaint filed by the families of two detainees at Guantanamo Bay who claim that their deaths in 2006 was covered when the Pentagon ruled suicides.
The Pentagon has maintained that the two men, Saudi prisoner Yasser al-Zahrani and Salah al-Salami of the Yemen, with a third inmate, Mani al-Utaybi, Saudi Arabia, committed suicide by hanging themselves in their cells. Utaybi family did not file a complaint.
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