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Second Group of Afghan Detainees Heads for Cuba
Aired January 14, 2002 - 05:04 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Turning now to the war in Afghanistan, a second group of detainees is scheduled to arrive at the United States Navy base in Guantanamo Bay this morning.
As CNN's Bill Hemmer reports from Kandahar, security was tight when the detainees left Afghanistan.
BILL HEMMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The second group of detainees left late Sunday night here in Kandahar. In this group, 30 detainees, 10 more than the original group sent out Thursday night. Again, security is stepped up even more given the events of Thursday and the firefight that ensued when that giant C-17 left here.
Each detainee escorted by a heavily armed marine or army M.P. Security was even tighter, with Cobra gunships patrolling overhead. Humvees patrolled the perimeter where that C-17 took off and also where those shots were fired on Thursday night.
The detainees here dressed again in a familiar orange jumpsuit. They sat back to back in the center of a cargo plane, separated by a high seat back. Armed guards then sat across from each detainee on board that plane and again, as we saw on Thursday, attack dogs roamed the tarmac here in Kandahar.
Twenty hours of flight time plus a stopover at an undisclosed military location. Eventually 50 detainees now will total the number there in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Also, back in Kandahar now, we continue to learn more from military sources. They say right now there are detainees being held who had planned terrorist attacks to travel to the United States and specifically kill Americans. They also say for whatever reason, those plans were thwarted, possibly because of the events of September 11.
We also know Bagrham north of Kabul continues to be a center point for interrogation. In the past few days, the man accused of running the terrorist training camps here in Afghanistan, Ibn Al-Shayk al-Libi, was transported there after being held on board the USS Bataan in the Arabian Sea. As one source said, there are a lot of bad boys, he says, in Bagram.
Bill Hemmer, CNN, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Turning now to the war in Afghanistan, a second group of detainees is scheduled to arrive at the United States Navy base in Guantanamo Bay this morning.
As CNN's Bill Hemmer reports from Kandahar, security was tight when the detainees left Afghanistan.
BILL HEMMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The second group of detainees left late Sunday night here in Kandahar. In this group, 30 detainees, 10 more than the original group sent out Thursday night. Again, security is stepped up even more given the events of Thursday and the firefight that ensued when that giant C-17 left here.
Each detainee escorted by a heavily armed marine or army M.P. Security was even tighter, with Cobra gunships patrolling overhead. Humvees patrolled the perimeter where that C-17 took off and also where those shots were fired on Thursday night.
The detainees here dressed again in a familiar orange jumpsuit. They sat back to back in the center of a cargo plane, separated by a high seat back. Armed guards then sat across from each detainee on board that plane and again, as we saw on Thursday, attack dogs roamed the tarmac here in Kandahar. Twenty hours of flight time plus a stopover at an undisclosed military location. Eventually 50 detainees now will total the number there in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Also, back in Kandahar now, we continue to learn more from military sources. They say right now there are detainees being held who had planned terrorist attacks to travel to the United States and specifically kill Americans. They also say for whatever reason, those plans were thwarted, possibly because of the events of September 11.
We also know Bagrham north of Kabul continues to be a center point for interrogation. In the past few days, the man accused of running the terrorist training camps here in Afghanistan, Ibn Al-Shayk al-Libi, was transported there after being held on board the USS Bataan in the Arabian Sea. As one source said, there are a lot of bad boys, he says, in Bagram.
Bill Hemmer, CNN, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Bill Hemmer.
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