WASHINGTON (AP) _ The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay
are not receiving vaccinations against the swine flu vaccine.
Robert Gibbs on Tuesday said concern that terrorism suspects at the
U.S. naval base in Cuba were receiving vaccines was misplaced. Gibbs
says no vaccines are at the naval base and none are on the way. A
spokesman for the U.S. jail facility a day earlier said guards and
then inmates were scheduled for inoculations. Critics were fast to
object, saying U.S. civilians were waiting for vaccines while
suspected terrorists were being given injections.
Army Maj. James Crabtree on Monday had said that doses should start
arriving this month and medical personnel requested the doses. He
said detainees will be vaccinated "entirely on a voluntary basis.''
