2009-06-03 00:13:03 -

The military says five Guantanamo prisoners have died in apparent suicides since January 2002, when the United States began using its base in Cuba to detain suspected terrorists and others with alleged links to al-Qaida and the Taliban
_ June 10, 2006: Three detainees, two from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen, commit suicide by hanging themselves with nooses made from clothing and bed sheets. The families of the two Saudis _ Yassar Talal al-Zahrani and Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed al-Salami _ file a lawsuit against the U.S. military in January, alleging brutal treatment led the men to kill themselves. The Yemeni was Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi.
_ May 30, 2007: A Saudi detainee is found dead in an apparent suicide in Camp 5, a modern section of the detention center for high-value and noncompliant detainees. Military documents showed that the prisoner, Abdul Rahman Ma'ath Thafir al-Amri, previously warned interrogators that some detainees were desperate enough to commit suicide and possibly kill guards as well.

_ June 1, 2009: Guards find 31-year-old Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih dead in an apparent suicide.