Guantanamo prisoners battle guards

Months of increased tension at the Guantanamo Bay prison boiled over into a clash between guards and detainees as the military closed a communal section of the jail and moved inmates into single cells.

The violence erupted yesterday during an early morning raid that military officials said was necessary because prisoners had covered up security cameras and windows during a weeks-long protest and hunger strike over their indefinite confinement and conditions at the US base in Cuba.