BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: The U.S. Navy hopes to resume training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques within days, now that protesters occupying the U.S. bombing range have been evicted. CNN's Mike Boettcher joins us from Vieques with more on the day's developments.</s>MIKE BOETTCHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Bernie, I am in front of Camp Garcia where barricades have been set up. There are Puerto Rican police. And this is all a follow up to an operation to remove more then 100 protesters who want to stop the U.S. Navy from using this island as a target range. Both sides in this conflict today, however, took meticulous attention to try to avoid confrontation. It began at 5:30. There were FBI agents who arrived on Zodiac boats and in Humvee jeeps. They tried to remove the protesters from the 14 camps and it all happened very non-violently. The protesters followed their orders to remain civilly disobedient and the FBI agents followed their orders to keep this all as low key as possible.</s>RENEE SALINAS, FBI: We took a different approach in coming in here today, we knew these people were not armed, and we just came in and we -- we had already sent a communication to the press advising them that how we were going to, you know, deal with these individuals. So came in here and we are very glad that things went very, very smooth for us.</s>BOETTCHER: We have some figures on how many were arrested, 213 were detained, all of them were turned loose; 139 were arrested inside the compound here and the various camps that were set up; 64 people were arrested at the gate. The problem now is people are trying to monitor what the reaction will be in Puerto Rico where this is a very important issue, there have already been some sporadic protests in Puerto Rico, and this will be monitored through the night by federal authorities. Mike Boettcher, CNN live, Vieques, Puerto Rico.</s>SHAW: Thank you, Mike.
FBI's Eviction of Bombing Range Protesters on Puerto Rican Island of Vieques Goes Smoothly