11.   Military officials say the detainees are being interrogated to gather information that could prevent future terrorist attacks.

12.   Mueller ate a lunch of Afghan chicken and rice with FBI agents who are here to interrogate detainees.

13.   Roper said the detainees were being interrogated at an unspecified location.

14.   That decision followed a September ruling barring security services from using force while interrogating Palestinian detainees.

15.   The detainees were being interrogated, he said.

16.   The United States has learned much about al-Qaida from interrogating detainees and from documents seized in Afghan, but there is still much unknown.

17.   They refused to say Monday whether they have begun interrogating detainees, who have not been allowed lawyers.

18.   The panel interrogating the detainees is to decide which of them should stand trial before a special tribunal.