New detainees due in Cuba

New detainees from Afghanistan are today due to arrive at the US naval base detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where troops have built new chain-link cells to double the occupancy, military officials said.

Camp commander Colonel Terry Carrico said yesterday that Camp X-Ray, the high-security compound where 158 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban fighters are held in open-air cells with walls of chain-link fence, now has 320 cells.