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FBI arrives to interrogate prisoners in Afghanistan
US FBI agents have arrived in southern Afghanistan to interrogate Al-Qaeda prisoners in a bid to prevent terrorist attacks, agents said.
US FBI agents have arrived in southern Afghanistan to interrogate Al-Qaeda prisoners in a bid to prevent terrorist attacks, agents said.
It's the first time we've been in a foreign country while bombs are falling since looking for Nazis in South America in the 1940s, Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) agent Thomas C Knowles told reporters at the US Marine base at Kandahar airport.
Eight FBI agents investigating the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington arrived to help establish a detention camp at the airport.
No prisoners have yet arrived at the base. Captain Thomas Schmidt, the Marine officer in charge of the detention facility, said the Marines have learned their from the prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif last month in which hundreds of prisoners and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent were killed.
US planes bombed the prison while Northern Alliance troops put down the rebellion by mainly foreign Al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners.
The Kandahar detention center is probably the most secure place in Afghanistan, Schmidt told reporters outside the entrance to the facility, which is surrounded by concertina wire. There's overwhelming force opposing any uprising.
Bureau Report
Eight FBI agents investigating the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington arrived to help establish a detention camp at the airport.
No prisoners have yet arrived at the base. Captain Thomas Schmidt, the Marine officer in charge of the detention facility, said the Marines have learned their from the prison uprising in Mazar-e-Sharif last month in which hundreds of prisoners and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent were killed.
US planes bombed the prison while Northern Alliance troops put down the rebellion by mainly foreign Al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners.
The Kandahar detention center is probably the most secure place in Afghanistan, Schmidt told reporters outside the entrance to the facility, which is surrounded by concertina wire. There's overwhelming force opposing any uprising.
Bureau Report