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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! US base in Kandahar comes under fire: military spokesman A US base in Kandahar came under small arms fire from unidentified assailants Thursday shortly after a US military transport plane took off with the first group of prisoners from Afghanistan to a US navy base in Cuba, a military spokesman said. Assailants penetrated the perimeter of the base at the Kandahar airport on foot at a couple of locations and US troops responded with machine gun and small arms fire, a Marine lieutenant at the base said. "The forward operating base in Kandahar has received small arms fire at about 1125 EST (1625 GMT) today. Marines at the base and Afghan forces are in the process of dealing with that threat," said Navy Commander Frank Merriman, a spokesman for the US Central Command, told AFP. "The reports indicate no injuries in the initial exchange of fire," he said by telephone from the command's headquarters in Tampa, Florida. A US Air Force C-17 transport carrying the first group of prisoners to the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had taken off about 20 minutes before the shooting erupted, Merriman said. "At no time was the aircraft in danger, nor did it perform any evasive maneuvers," he said. No one was apprehended in the immediate aftermath of the attack and it was not immediately known who carried it out or what their objective was, Merriman said. But he said there were still pockets of Taliban and al-Qaeda supporters in the country "and you just never know when they are going to pop up. But we don't know exactly who these folks are at this point in time." Assailants on foot probed the perimeter of the base at the Kandahar airport at a couple of different locations, Lieutenant James Jarvis, a Marine Corps spokesman at the scene told CNN. "As a result of that we engaged them with both small arms fire as well as heavy machine guns and we sent out both US and opposition groups for anti-Taliban force patrols to investigate those sites," he said. "Quite simply this is a very large piece of ground," he said. "We had some foot mobile folks that were able to penetrate our lines. We quickly eradicated the threat. We sent out a patrol to see if anyone still exists there, and quite simply they're not there any more." http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020110/ts/afghan_us_military_164.html Thursday January 10 12:19 PM ET U.S. Moves al-Qaidans to Cuba By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military on Thursday began moving hooded and chained prisoners from the war in Afghanistan (news - web sites) to a jail in Cuba. Taliban and al-Qaida detainees were taken from prisons to Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan for movement to Guantanamo, Cuba, officials said. Later, a group of some 20 from among more than 300 in U.S. custody were shown on CNN shuffling to an airplane at the airport. The trans-Atlantic move presents an unprecedented security challenge. Prisoners were to be chained to their seats - and possibly be sedated, forced to use portable urinals and be fed by their guards - during the flights from Afghanistan to newly constructed jail cells in Guantanamo, according to newspaper and television reports. Pentagon (news - web sites) spokeswoman Victoria Clarke wouldn't comment on the reports except to say detainees were being treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention rules on prisoners. Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes struck again early Thursday Afghan time at the huge cave, tunnel and building complex used as an al-Qaida training camp in eastern Afghanistan. American-led forces for several days have been detonating ordnance found there and hitting the compound itself, saying intelligence indicated it was recently occupied by al-Qaida fighters preparing to escape the country into Pakistan. As for the prisoners, Clarke told a Thursday press briefing that she was trying to determine what details of the transfer would be released, saying officials would not be talking about schedules or other things that would breach security, but would simply announce when the detainees had reached Guantanamo. But it was clear their transfer was imminent when prisoners were consolidated - that is brought from other locations to Kandahar. Eight were brought from the Navy's USS Bataan in the Arabian Sea and a number from the U.S. detention centers in Bagram and Mazar-e-Sharif, military officials said. ``This thing is being done ... with the most expertise that we can bring to bear on it,'' said spokesman Steve Lucas at the U.S. Southern Command, the Miami-based command that is helping coordinate the move. ``These suicidally murderous people have compatriots at large,'' said Lucas. ``We don't want to provide them any information that could make a big terrorist splash.'' In two separate deadly incidents, prisoners got hold of weapons and staged an uprising while held in a fortress in northern Afghanistan, while others killed Pakistani guards after being apprehended trying to escape into that country. American troops have held the prisoners in much greater security since taking custody of them. ``Nothing like this to my knowledge has been done before (considering) the level of threat and probably the size and distance too,'' Lucas said of the imminent transfer. ``I'm not sure that anyone has every handled detainees of this type and transferred them 20 hours or whatever it is - around the world.'' The regrouping of prisoners overnight Wednesday Washington time brought the number in Kandahar to 351, said Lt. Col. Martin Compton at the U.S. Central Command's war command center in Tampa, Fla. A total of 371 are in U.S. custody, with 19 remaining in Bagram, one on the Bataan and none in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, he said. Preliminary plans were to take them from Kandahar on C-17s to a base in Europe where they could be transferred to C-140 cargo planes for the remainder of the trip to Cuba. Those in U.S. custody have been selected from among thousands captured by Afghan fighters as they took one city after another from the former Taliban rulers who had been harboring Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and is al-Qaida terrorists. ``These people vowed to win their way into paradise by murdering anybody in American uniform, or for that matter, any civilians,'' Lucas said in reference to the terrorists' radical Islamic beliefs. ``The level of threat is probably unique.'' *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! 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