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More New Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

Aired February 10, 2002 - 07:08   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: The military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has more new prisoners flown in yesterday from Afghanistan. CNN National correspondent Bob Franken with that.

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BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Thirty- four were in the latest patch of detainees. So now, there are 220 at Camp X-ray, which has 320 of the infamous outdoor cells. This was the eighth delivery. What's new is the presidential order that among other things requires different treatment for Taliban inmates and al Qaeda inmates. The response here on the ground, "easier said than done."

BRIG. GEN. MICHAEL LEHNERT, TASK FORCE COMMANDER: Keep in the mind that though the president has made that distinction, many of the detainees are not forthcoming. Many have been interviewed as many as four times, each providing -- each time providing a different name and different information.

FRANKEN: The fact is the Taliban and al Qaeda will not be segregated at Camp X-ray even if officials here become convinced they know who is which.

This is a temporary facility. Construction of a penitentiary building is planned a few miles away at a sight called Radio Range.

LEHNERT: The facilities that are being built will allow a certain degree of segregation that is certainly not possible now. So in terms of whether or not we'll build separate camps, no, that's not my intention, but there will probably be some type of segregation in the Radio Range facility just due to the fact that it is a more permanent, more mature type of facility.

FRANKEN (on-camera): For now, the treatment of all the detainees will remain the same, humane, they contend here controversial nonetheless in many parts of the world.

Bob Franken, CNN, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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