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Guantanamo guards struggle with hunger striker (AP)

This picture released by attorney Ramzi Kassem and made available Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, shows Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Zaid Zuhair in an undated family picture taken in Saudi Arabia. Zuhair, a compact 43-year-old with 10 children in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, had been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 without charges, and he saw starving himself to death as his only form of protest. The U.S. military was determined not to let him succeed. (AP Photo/Zuhair family)AP - Three years ago, the man known as Internment Serial Number 669 stopped eating.



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