U.S. Senators visit Guantanamo Bay

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Flying home after visiting the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday he expects bipartisan support for putting top captured al-Qaida figures on trial before military commissions and for guidelines on how they should be treated.

Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, visited the detention center in eastern Cuba, which holds some 460 detainees, including 14 top alleged al-Qaida figures recently transferred from CIA custody. Among them is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Frist said his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was especially poignant coming one day short of the fifth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

"Being there today with the recognition that 14 individuals were there who in all likelihood contributed to the 9/11 events ... led me to think how critical it is that we do define the appropriate criteria to make sure we get information to prevent such a tragedy from ever occurring again," Frist said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060911/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_senators_1

[MidwestTransplant]

1. 14? There are like 450 in detention.

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2. I think he means the 14 late of the secret CIA prisons

Plus the 426 that were turned in simply so some Northern Alliance guy with a rifle can get a bounty

[Pastiche423]

3. ".. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001"

I thought OBL held that title. When did that change?

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4. The way they figure it,ObL ordered it and laid out the plan

while KSM planned it and saw to the details and challenges of the program.