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На Кубе 3 русские талибаны. Другие на голодовке
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Three Russians Reported Among Guantanamo Inmates
Mon Apr 1,12:12 PM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian citizens are among the 300 suspected al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners being held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Russia's defense minister said Monday.
Russia has long claimed that rebel fighters from separatist Chechnya (news - web sites) have links with al Qaeda militants, using the alleged ties to justify tough tactics in the region and dismiss Western accusations of heavy-handedness as "double standards."
"It has been established that there are three Russian citizens there (in Guantanamo). I confirm this officially," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said in televised comments.
"Their fate, including the possibility of legal prosecution, will be decided by our General Prosecutor's office."
Ivanov spoke to reporters in the Black Sea resort of Sochi after meeting President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites).
Ivanov was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying that the three Russians were taken prisoner "in Afghanistan (news - web sites) with weapons in their hands, and it is well known how they got there."
He did not give any further details.
The prisoners from 31 different countries, captured during the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan, were flown half-way across the globe to chain link-walled cells at "Camp X-Ray" in southeastern Cuba. It is still unclear what will happen to them.
U.S. officials have said they plan trials before military "commissions" for prisoners suspected of involvement in the September 11 suicide airliner attacks on U.S. cities.
But they have not said which, if any, of the Guantanamo prisoners would be tried and what charges they might face.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020401/wl_nm/russia_afghan_prisoners_dc_1
Two prisoners who refused food for 30 days to protest their detention at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were force-fed through stomach tubes Sunday, military officials said. The two are among 300 suspected al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners captured in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and held at the remote U.S. military base in eastern Cuba. U.S. Marines escort a detainee before questioning at Camp X-Ray in this February 10, 2002, file photograph at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Marc Serota/Reuters)