THERE is speculation that US troops guarding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are using a knockout gas similar to the agent used by Russian forces to end a terrorist stand-off in a Moscow theatre in October last year.
An article in London newspaper The Guardian last week quoted a Pakistani teacher named Abdul Razaq, recently released from Guantanamo, as saying that when a few inmates became unruly, guards “sprayed them to make them unconscious, tied them up and took them to the punishment block”. Guards at the camp are known to carry tear gas, which can cause unconsciousness in large doses.…
