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Detainees at temporary
'Camp X-Ray' in Cuba
January 12, 2002 Posted: 6:12 p.m. EST (2312 GMT)
(CNN) -- Twenty
Afghan war detainees, the first of hundreds expected, are spending their
first full day Saturday at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
They received medical
exams and showers and were photographed, fingerprinted and interrogated
before being led to individual outdoor cages at "Camp X-Ray,"
a temporary compound. The detainees will be kept there until a permanent
detention center can be built. Some of them resisted U.S. military personnel
Friday as they were taken off the plane.
Col. Terry Carrico
described the detainees' treatment as "firm and fair." "We
have positive control of these individuals," he said.
The 6-by-8 "cells"
have a chain-link fence perimeter, a concrete floor and a wooden roof
but are otherwise open to the elements. The military has sprayed the entire
complex with anti-mosquito spray. The detainees will have a foam rubber
sleeping mat and two towels -- one for bathing and another for a prayer
mat, according to a military spokesman. They also will receive a bar of
soap, a squeeze bottle of shampoo, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and flip-flop
sandals for showers.
Three meals will
be served to the detainees each day. Breakfast and dinner will be hot
meals, with water as a beverage. They also will have access to cereal,
raisins, peanuts and granola bars. Meanwhile, investigators have recovered
five of seven bodies of U.S. Marines killed Wednesday when their KC-130
military refueling plane crashed in western Pakistan, military officials
in Kandahar, Afghanistan, said Saturday. The recovery operation is ongoing,
and the Marines said they are hopeful they will recover the remaining
bodies.
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