{"article":{"id":14030,"heading":"US flies suspects to Cuba base","author":"BBC World News","created":"2002-01-11 18:21:38","modified":"2002-01-11 18:56:06","last_modified":"Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:56:06","article":"<p>A first group of al-Qaeda and Taleban prisoners being held by US forces has been flown out of Afghanistan, headed for a prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.  <br>  <br> Some 20 detainees from among the 300 currently in US custody were on the first flight, which left from Kandahar airbase on Thursday.  <br><br> CNN television showed pictures of the men, hooded and chained together, shuffling to a plane on the tarmac.  <br><br> The Pentagon has refused to comment on reports that the prisoners will be chained to their seats and possibly sedated during the long flight.  <br><br> It says only that detainees will be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.  <br><br> It is also unclear whether the prisoners, if tried, will be put before a military tribunal or a civil court, open to public scrutiny.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A first group of al-Qaeda and Taleban prisoners being held by US forces has been flown out of Afghanistan, headed for a prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/01\/14030.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}