Camp x-ray prisoners go on hunger strike in turban protest

Nearly 90 al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Camp X-Ray were still believed to be on hunger strike today, despite a concession by their American guards over the wearing of turbans.

Incensed that two guards stripped a detainee of his turban during prayer, nearly two-thirds of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba refused lunch yesterday and chanted: ‘‘God is great’’ in Arabic, in their first mass protest since arriving at the base.