Gitmo guards find contraband briefs, Speedo

Source: MSNBC/AP

Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp found two prisoners sporting unauthorized underwear, and the U.S. military is investigating to determine how they got the contraband.

Both prisoners were caught wearing Under Armour briefs, and one also had on a Speedo bathing suit, items the military said were not issued by Guantanamo personnel or sent through the regular mail, according to a Defense Department letter obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Army Lt. Col. Ed Bush, a spokesman at the jail holding some 340 men on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban, said more was involved than just an uproar over skivvies.

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The letter, sent last month by the Office of the Navy Judge Advocate General to a lawyer for one of the prisoners involved noted both detainees are represented by the British human rights group Reprieve and suggested attorneys might have "surreptitiously" provided the garments.

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:evilgrin:

of Rita Hayworth ?

which is true (and not sarcasm)

presumably for those prisoners wanting to show off in the Gitmo swimming pool, whilst tanning prior to the call to prayer. Which is :sarcasm:

The people in charge of torturing detainees and warehousing innocent bystanders of a war they had nothing to do with are worried because their underwear isn't regulation. Prisoners are starving themselves to death in protest and we're pissed off they have new underwear.

Let's start a campaign of mailing packages of BVD's and speedos to GITMO--a modified "boxer rebellion."