LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: In the next few days, the first enemy prisoners may be bound for the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. CNN's Bill Hemmer is on the ground in Afghanistan with that and other news coming from America's new war.</s>BILL HEMMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): It is perhaps the most sensitive operation to date: How do you transport 300 suspected al Qaeda terrorists halfway around the world to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? We are being told here in Kandahar that military planners right now are reviewing their options. One is by ship, the other is by air. But sources indicate that trip may happen by air and it may come within a few days's time. But certainly the military is being quite tight lipped about this. The operation and the information is considered highly classified. In another part of Afghanistan, Nathan Chapman, the 31-year-old Green Beret shot and killed last Friday -- apparently tribal leaders in eastern Afghanistan right now are meeting. They believe the possibility that a 14-year-old boy may be responsible for the shooting death of Chapman. We are told they are considering the possibility of handing him over to U.S. authorities, but a final decision may not come until at least Tuesday morning. In another region of Afghanistan, the most intense airstrikes now underway in eastern Afghanistan that we have seen in about a week's time. This is the area known as Khost, right along the Pakistan/Afghan border. The Pentagon has warned that it has been worried about the possibility that al Qaeda terrorists and Taliban fighters may possibly reassemble in this area. It's possible the target of the operation right now may be to flush those fighters out. Bill Hemmer, CNN, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Troops Prepare for Prisoner Transfer to Cuba