Teens among detainees at base in Cuba, U.S. says

[MIKE BURN]

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From Barbara Starr

CNN Washington Bureau

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 Posted: 11:21 AM EDT (1521 GMT)







WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Three of the 660 detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are teenagers, U.S. military authorities said Wednesday.



Apprehended in Afghanistan, the teenagers joined other detainees at the U.S. base at the beginning of the year, officials said. The teens range in age from 13 to 15.



All three are being questioned to obtain possible intelligence, Johnson said. He indicated that they will be screened to determine whether they are a threat. He also said that there is no automatic assumption they will be released because of their age.



The U.S. military began bringing detainees from Afghanistan to the base in January 2002 and held them at a temporary facility called Camp X-Ray. A second detention area called Camp Delta was built for the detainees and first occupied last April.

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[Seismic Anamoly]

I hope they give them a good spanking before they let them go...



Excellent.