Iraqi detainee dies of apparent heart attack (30 years old)

[Barrett808]

Iraqi detainee dies of apparent heart attack
Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Monday, May 16, 2005

A 30-year-old detainee at a U.S. military prison in Iraq has died of “an apparent heart attack,” American officials said Sunday.

The unnamed man was pronounced dead by a U.S. military doctor at Camp Bucca around 6 p.m. Saturday, officials said.

According to a news release issued Sunday by the Multi-National Force-Iraq, “medics responded to one of the compounds, where a detainee was complaining of chest pains and quickly moved the detainee to a hospital.”

The man, whose nationality was not released, went into cardiac seizure and died after resuscitation efforts failed, the military said. The detainee had been held at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq since December 2004 “as a security threat to Iraq,” officials said.

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http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29118

[jobycom]

1. Actually, I can believe it was a heart attack

Since if it was something else we'd have never even heard about it.

[Decay]

2. "resuscitation efforts"?

They probably mean repeated kicks to the cranium.

[UpInArms]

3. nice that they give details about what occurred after

the heart attack (resusitation efforts), but not before (taser, stress positions, strikes below the knees while suspended in air?)

Ah, the credibility enjoyed by the spokesperson for the military! :sarcasm:

[Lerkfish]

4. yeah, I wonder about the "resuscitaion efforts"

the efforts probably included:
"tell us what we want to know, and we won't sodomize your 12 yr old son in front of you......again.

:eyes:

[merwin]

5. 30 year old iraqis are very prone to high cholosteral, high blood pressure

as well as just spontaneous combustion. :)

[Drifter]

6. Entirely possible ...

We recently had a local boy (who attends college in Boston), drop dead of an apparant heart attack, as his crew team crossed the finish line of a race.

No matter how you slice it up it is tragic.

Cheers
Drifter

[gratuitous]

7. Possible, yes

But after hearing so many stories of detainees dying from "natural causes" or some such anti-matter language folderol, only to have the real cause of death turn out to be something a little less esoteric, I think the American public has earned the right to be skeptical of initial reports of deaths of persons detained by the United States wehrmacht.

Although, I guess it IS natural to die when you can't breathe, so a suffocation death listed as "natural causes" isn't a total bald-faced lie.

[Barrett808]

8. Possible, yes -- esp. when under enormous stress

Rowing crew might be comparable to waterboarding as a stressor...