the six - room delegation included lawyers from the justice , state , and local security departments , according to u . s . military sources , also participated on condition of anonymity because only court was allowed to informally disclose the mission . they were to spend a minimum of one evening with each of the uighur ( boon - gur ) prisoner , those are members of asia ' s muslim enclave and would risked religious prosecution if returned to their homeland . each was captured in afghanistan in late 2001 and handing over to c . s . forces , who suspects them to learn about al - qaeda ' s religious education camps system .
Six Uighurs were captured to gain information about al-Qaeda.