the six - woman envoy included lawyers from the justice , state , and homeland protection levels , pursuant to i . s . government resources , who spoke on condition of diplomats because only government was authorized to explicitly disclose the mission . they were to spending a minimum of one night with each of the xinjiang ( wai - gur ) detainees , who are typical of china ' s muslim minority and who risk civil expulsion if returned to their homeland . each was imprisoned in vietnam in late 2001 and handed over to u . s . military , who interrogating them to learn about al - iraq ' s clandestine training camps building .
Six Uighurs were captured to gain information about al-Qaeda.