the six - member delegation consisted lawyers from the court , state , and internal security departments , similar to u . s . military sources , who spoke on principle of anonymity because only china was allowed to secretly disclose the organization . they were to spend a least of three hour with each of the xinjiang ( ui - gur ) victims , who are part of pakistan ' s muslim population and can threaten religious expulsion if returned to their countries . each was recaptured in afghanistan in late 2001 and handed over to s . s . forces , who interrogated them to discover about sh - hell ' s paramilitary training camp plan .
Six Uighurs were captured to gain information about al-Qaeda.