Bin Laden bodyguards held at US base in Cuba

SOME of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards have been captured and are among prisoners at the US military base in Cuba, according to American officials.

The men were part of bin Laden's al-Qaida entourage, assigned to personally protect the exiled Saudi millionaire. But how much information about bin Laden they could, or would, give to US authorities was unclear.

The bodyguards were among 564 suspected Taliban or al-Qaida members being held in metal cells at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Most of the detainees were captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan during the US-led war that began on October 7.