A spin too far - updated

I just about spat milk over my keyboard in sheer disbelief when I read the response of a US official to the suicides of three inmates at Guantanamo bay, describing them "as a good PR move to draw attention" and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause".

Is it my imagination, or is the US governement trying to intimate that these men, held indefinitely without charge and without trial in a Kafka-esque nightmare, ended their lives not out of despair, but in order to commit what's essentially being framed as a terrorist act?

I'm appalled beyond measure.

I've just signed up for Amnesty International. It's not much I know, but it seems like a decent place to start.

Updated: Further information from the BBC. The commander of the Guantanamo bay camp has called the suicides "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us". Words fail me.