Yahoo! January 8, 2002.
Soldiers must build high-security prison at Guantanamo
Tuesday January 08 09:22 AM EST
Military personnel moving Al Qaeda prisoners of war from Afghanistan (news -
web sites) to Cuba are faced with the challenge of building a maximum-security
prison in a matter of days.
The naval base at Guantanamo Bay is already an established holding area for
Cuban refugees who live in makeshift camps, and now units ranging from engineers
to military police are being sent there to build a secure prison for as many as
2,000 prisoners from Afghanistan.
"I believe there is a certain risk associated with the mission, and as
such we are using only our best trained and ready military police," Gen.
B.B. Bell of the U.S. Army said.
The military wants to avoid a repeat of what happened in the bloody prison
uprising in Afghanistan where a CIA agent was killed.
U.S. Representatives Dine With Castro
HAVANA, 8 (AP) - Six members of the U.S. congress met with Cuban President
Fidel Castro (news - web sites) before sitting down later in the day for talks
with a dozen members of the political opposition.
"We have to work together, we have to put the Cold War behind us,''
Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., said at the end of the sessions Monday that gave
the visiting Congressional delegation a view of both ends of Cuban political
spectrum.
Among the dissident group was well-known human rights activist Elizardo
Sanchez, of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation, at
its hotel.
The U.S. lawmakers arrived in Cuba on Thursday, accompanied by Sally Grooms
Cowal, president of the Cuba Policy Foundation, a Washington-based anti-embargo
group, and Cuba specialist Phil Peters of the Lexington Institute, a public
policy organization in Arlington, Va.
Delahunt traveled with Reps. Jo Ann Emerson, a Republican from Missouri, and
Democrats Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, Vic Snyder of Arkansas, William Clay
of Missouri and Hilda Solis of California. | 
