Three Guantanamo hostages (sorry, I cannot use the term inmates, these men are hostages, plain and simple) have committed suicide. In a typically hawkish statement, the camp commander described this as an act of war. Subsequently, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy (whom the BBC describe as a 'top US official', seems pretty low to me, third tier of a role that isn't a cabinet post) described it as a PR move. If this was an act of war then it's possibly the most futile of all time, but why should the facts get in the way of a good bit of rhetoric? The reality is far more likely to be that the men in question were at the point of utter desperation. As Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch said, they were being held lawlessly.

Totally unrelated, but the BBC's World Cup coverage's theme tune is Thine be the glory.