Uncertainties Vex Detainees, U.S.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- In addition to banana rats, tarantulas and scorpions, this outpost is home to 3-foot-long iguanas, a protected species. It is also home to 300 increasingly angry prisoners of the war in Afghanistan whose status is far less defined, and that, admit U.S. military officials who are in charge of this makeshift prison, is becoming a problem.
In unprecedented legal limbo as the U.S. government figures out what to do with them, they fully expect to be tortured or worse and have no idea whether they will be tried and executed--or simply sent home.
Prison officials say those tensions underlie the hunger strike that erupted this week after a guard stripped a prisoner of the turban he had fashioned from a bedsheet, in violation of camp rules.