Detainees protest

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Incensed that two guards stripped a detainee of his turban during prayer, nearly two-thirds of the prisoners captured in the Afghan war refused lunch Thursday and chanted "God is great" in Arabic in their first mass protest since arriving at the base. \nIn addition, some detainees pushed sheets, blankets, sleeping mats and other items through the small openings in the chain-link walls of their cells in protest, Marine Maj. Stephen Cox, the detention mission spokesman, told reporters. \nTension has been building among the 300 inmates who have been held at Camp X-ray, the remote U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba, since January. \nIn recent days, some have been ignoring a taped call to prayer and instead have picked individual detainees to announce and lead prayer, which Muslims do five times a day. \n"There is an underlying tension associated with the uncertainty of their future: What is going to happen?" Cox said. "Our honest answer is we don't know…what the future holds for them at this time." \nCox said 159 detainees skipped lunch and 109 skipped dinner Wednesday. Thursday, 107 skipped breakfast and 194 refused lunch.