The announcement came as five prisoners charged with plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked plane attacks on the United States appeared in the war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base for a week of pretrial hearings.
Aruba [9] is a Caribbean island 15 miles north of the coast of Venezuela, and is one of the four countries that together form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is 30 km (19.6 miles) long and 9 km (6 miles) across at its widest point giving it an area of approximately 70 miÂ² (184 kmÂ²).
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,  CuraÃ§ao is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located around 37 miles north of Venezuela's coastline. It is at near the southwest extreme of the Lesser Antilles and remains under Dutch control as part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.