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| Plane with Al-Qaeda detainees arrives at US base in Cuba |
| 2002-01-12 |
| A plane carrying the first group of prisoners from the war in Afghanistan arrived at the US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, yesterday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. Thousands of Afghan troops left Kabul yesterday as US soldiers said they had been attacked at an air base in southern Afghanistan minutes after a plane took off with a first batch of prisoners bound for Cuba. And with warlords and bandits setting up fiefdoms across Afghanistan, US troops began disarming local militia yesterday. Also yesterday, US warplanes returned to pound targets in the Khost region of eastern Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network ran a guerrilla training base, a Pakistan-based news agency said. But the whereabouts of Bin Laden and his one-time protector, Taleban supreme leader Mulla Omar, remained a mystery. In Washington, President George W. Bush warned Iran against harboring members of Al-Qaeda network who fled Afghanistan and cautioned Iran not to challenge the new Afghan interim government. US troops began disarming ragtag militia fighters in the town of Spin Boldak on the Pakistani border, witnesses said. |
| Posted by:Fred |