More detainees arrive from Afghanistan at US naval base

Описание: (17 Jan 2002)

VIDEO AS INCOMING
1. Plane carrying latest batch of detainees from Afghanistan
2. Aerial Guantanamo
3. Plane flying past
4. Shot from plane window, plane landing
5. Wide base
6. Press
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier General Michael R Lehnert, Commander Joint Task Force 160:
"Because they (the cells) are modular, they can be moved once the mission is complete. Each unit will have a prison bed, an Asian toilet, tap water and a sink. Consistent with the guidance we have received today, they will be humane but they won't be comfortable."
8. Reporters
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier General Michael R Lehnert, Commander Joint Task Force 160:
"Each detainee receives a breakfast meal consisting of bread, a bagel with cream cheese, fruit and water. For lunch they receive a halal meal."
10. Various shots of food packages for detainees
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier General Michael R Lehnert, Commander Joint Task Force 160:
"For supper they receive beans, rice, more bread and fruit. Each detainee has an isomat (foam mat) to lay on. It isn't particularly comfortable. It's also the same thing issued every day to our soldiers and marines in the field."
12. Lehnert showing mat detainees will sleep on
13. Reporters
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier General Michael R Lehnert, Commander Joint Task Force 160:
"They get a canteen with water in it. Shampoo. Toothpaste. A tooth brush."
15. Reporters
16. Lehnert showing prison overalls
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier General Michael R Lehnert, Commander Joint Task Force 160:
"These are not nice people. Several have publicly stated here they intend to kill an American before they leave Guantanamo Bay. We will not give them that satisfaction."
18. Guantanamo Bay
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier General Michael R Lehnert, Commander Joint Task Force 160:
"We are being guided by the Geneva conventions." (Question: "What does that mean?") "What that means is the guidance we are receiving from Washington DC we are following, and I think that you'll find that we are treating them in a humane fashion. Once the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) gets here, we are going to confirm that."
20. Guantanamo Bay

STORYLINE:

Al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners being held at Guantanamo Naval Base have threatened to kill Americans there, according to a spokesman at the base.

30 more inmates arrived from Afghanistan on Wednesday.

About 60 armed Marines met the group, who arrived aboard a US Air Force C-141 cargo plane.

The Marines grasped the handcuffed prisoners by the shoulders and arms, leading them one-by-one to waiting school buses.

The latest group brings the total number of prisoners at the base to 80.

Marine Brigadier General Michael Lehnert, commander of US Joint Task Force 160 which is overseeing the operation in Guantanamo Bay, described the way the prisoners were being treated.

He stressed they were being treated humanely, although the cells, he said, were not comfortable.

He said of the detainees, "These are not nice people."

Speaking during a news conference at an aircraft hangar, Lehnert showed the press examples of the types of food the detainees were being given and the clothes they were wearing.

The temporary detention center known as Camp X-ray can currently hold 200 inmates but will be expanded to hold more than 600 while builders complete a permanent facility that can hold 2,000 detainees.

A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross will inspect conditions at Guantanamo on Thursday.

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