США будут содержать пленных боевиков Аль Кайды и Талибан на военной базе Гуантанамо , на Кубе.
По сообшению СNN 20 пленных боевиков уже вылетели туда 10-го января , с американской базы на юге Афганистана .
Предполагается что всего Гуантанамо примет около 2000 талибских зеков, большинство из которых предстанут перед военным трибуналом.
Решение США содержать пленных не на территории США , обьясняется одним законом , принятым в начале 50-х. По этому закону лица воюющие против США, имеют право пользоваться американской судебной системой(например правом на общественного адвоката) , только в том случае , если они находяться на территории США.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Twenty al Qaeda and Taliban fighters -- sedated, hooded and chained -- left a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan late Thursday for a makeshift prison at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Military officials described the departure of the detainees as orderly and said it may serve as a trial run for later detainee transfers.
Troops led the prisoners, wearing hoods and orange jumpsuits and watched by guard dogs, onto the tarmac of Kandahar's airport and into the C-17 around 8:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. ET).
The detainees were chained to their seats for the 8,000-mile trip and even barred from using the toilets, with special provisions being made so they would not have to get up.
The flight, excluding a scheduled stopover and possible transfer to another plane at an undisclosed location, was scheduled to take 20 hours.
"They are fully aware that these are dangerous individuals," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday, noting the military was authorized and instructed to use "appropriate restraint."
The Guantanamo base can currently house 100 prisoners but soon will accommodate 2,000. The total number of detainees held by U.S. forces at the Kandahar airport had swelled to 351 with the addition of 45 Wednesday night.
Some of the prisoners taken to Guantanamo likely will face a military tribunal, a prospect that has generated criticism from civil rights advocates.
Former U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey said federal courts have ruled that anyone held at Guantanamo has no constitutional rights, such as the right to legal counsel and others given to criminal defendants.
All the detainees are being treated as if they were prisoners of war, although they have not been declared as such under the Geneva Convention, according to officials.
