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| U.S. Forces Moving to Set Up Guantanamo Prison |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 01/14/2002 |
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Military police from Fort Hood, Texas, and forces from other U.S. bases began to ship out recently for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to establish a maximum-security detention jail that will hold 2,000 al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, the Pentagon said. Many of the U.S. forces at the facility would be Army military police from Fort Hood but other troops would come from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Norfolk Naval Air Station, Virginia. The total number being deployed is about 1,500. An initial 100 al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners from Afghanistan will be housed there, with the number gradually increasing to 2,000, the Pentagon spokesman said. It was unclear when the first prisoners would be moved to Guantanamo or who they would be. John Walker Lindh, a 20-year-old Californian who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan, is among those being held aboard a U.S. vessel. Officials said the United States was taking precautions against prisoner uprisings like one at a facility in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, which led to many deaths, including that of a CIA operative. Cuban leader Fidel Castro had been expected to object to Washington's decision to build a jail at the 45-square mile American base on Cuba's southeastern tip, but two senators who recently visited Havana said he raised no objection. |
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