A federal judge reversed an order that had prevented the Pentagon from force-feeding a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, saying she "simply cannot let [him] die." But in ending her weeklong ban against the force-feeding of Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler sharply criticized the U.S. military for not allowing him to be fed in a base hospital, as he requested, and instead requiring that he be strapped down at the prison compound. Restraint chair at Guantanamo Bay Joe Raedle / Getty Images This restraint chair has been used to force-feed recalcitrant detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Lawyers for Diyab, also...
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