Armed revolt at Guantanamo Bay quickly subdued

[O]fficials called Thursday's clash the most intense outbreak of violence at the jail for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base [...] since it opened in January 2002.

Six prisoners were treated for "minor injuries" and none of the U.S. guards was seriously hurt after the fight pitting 10 inmates against 10 U.S. guards, the officials said. The fight ended only after guards blasted detainees five times with a 12 gauge shotgun shooting rubber balls and used a grenade launcher that shot a blunt rubber object, officials said.

Army Col. Mike Bumgarner, in charge of detention operations, said detainees were jumping off beds on top of the guards and knocked some guards to the ground, adding: "Frankly we were losing the fight at that point." The fighting lasted four to five minutes, [officials] said.

Details of the clash emerged on the same day that the United Nations' top anti-torture body told Washington that any secret jails it ran for foreign terrorism suspects, along with the Guantanamo facility, were illegal and should be closed.

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