Pentagon Still Establishing Procedures For Dealing With Prisoners

By John Liang / January 11, 2002 at 5:00 AM
While the first batch of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners have arrived at a detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, U.S. military officials are "still in the very early stages" of establishing procedures for dealing with them, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers told reporters during a Pentagon briefing that the "detainees," as Defense Department officials refer to them, arrived in Cuba shortly before 2...

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