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).
It is bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east. Venezuela's territory covers around 916,445 km2 (353,841 sq mi) with an estimated population around 33,221,865.