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Detainees' data 'best' resource on al Qaeda
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 | By Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 04/19/2005 12:43:28 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are providing the U.S. military with its best information on America's No. 1 enemy, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror group, says a new Pentagon report. More than three years after many of the al Qaeda and Taliban fighters were captured in Afghanistan, the 550 prisoners continue to divulge new information on recently nabbed bin Laden operatives and on remotely detonated bombs killing U.S. troops in Iraq. "The Joint Task Force, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remains the single best repository of al Qaeda information in the Department of Defense," said the recently compiled report. "Many detainees have admitted close relationships or other access to senior al Qaeda leadership.

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KEYWORDS: alqaeda; detainees; enemycombatant; gitmo; intelligence; militarytribunal; rowanscarborough

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