Pentagon Releases Crew's Names

Pentagon officials have identified the seven Marines killed aboard a military tanker plane that crashed in Pakistan on Wednesday.

The crew members killed included the first woman among the U.S. forces in Afghanistan to die.

The crew members, as released by the Pentagon:

Capt. Matthew W. Bancroft, 29, of Redding, Calif., the plane's pilot.

Capt. Daniel G. McCollum, 29, of Richland, S.C., the co-pilot.

Gunnery Sgt. Stephen L. Bryson, 36, of Montgomery, Ala.

Staff Sgt. Scott N. Germosen, 37, of New York

Sgt. Nathan P. Hays, 21, of Lincoln, Wash.

LCpl. Bryan P. Bertrand, 23, of Coos, Ore.

Sgt. Jeannette L. Winters, 25, of Du Page, Ill., the first female among U.S. forces in Afghanistan to be killed.

Defense officials said there are no signs the plane was brought down by hostile action.

The KC-130 is routinely used for in-flight refueling or for hauling cargo.

Bertrand's father said two Marines drove to his home to tell him his son was on the plane.

Bruce Bertrand said "It's terrible, but we're proud of him."

He said Bryan Bertrand could have been home a month ago -- but he volunteered for another tour of duty because he "didn't want to be on the sidelines."

President Bush said the crash is a reminder of "how serious the times are today." He said the nation's hearts and prayers go out to the soldiers' families.

Witnesses reported seeing flames shooting from the plane before it slammed into a mountain.

The KC-130 Hercules plane was making its landing approach at an air base after making several stops. That type of plane is routinely used for refueling missions.

Prison Camp Won't Be 'Comfortable'

A prison camp being erected at a U.S. Naval base in Cuba will be "humane, but not comfortable."

That's how the facility is described by Brig. Gen. Mike Lehnert.

He's heading a task force of 660 service men and women building Camp X-ray, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

Lehnert said soldiers in Cuba have a job of taking "terrorists out of the fight by locking them up."

The facility is expected to be completed this week, with prisoners arriving by the weekend.

Officials hope to build 220 cells, and eventually 2,000 permanent ones to hold war detainees.

The camp will be surrounded by guard towers and barbed wire fences.

U.S. forces report holding 364 suspected Taliban or al-Qaida members.

U.S.: Taliban Captives Should Be In U.S. Custody

U.S. officials are making clear that if high-ranking Taliban leaders surrender in Afghanistan, they shouldn't go free.

The statement is in response to reports that Afghan officials said seven high-ranking Taliban figures, including the former justice minister, surrendered to Afghan commanders but were allowed to go free.

One Afghan official said they were allowed to go free after they recognized the new Afghan interim government.

"They will not be handed over to America," the officials said, but added that they won't be taking part in politics.

At the State Department, spokesman Richard Boucher said senior Taliban officials should be in U.S. hands.

A spokesman for the new Afghan government's foreign ministry said the Afghan administration is determining whether the Taliban are "war criminals."

The justice minister who was allowed to return home is the man who drew up the Taliban version of Islamic law, including its restrictions on women. He also created the religious police who enforced it.

U.S. Military Focusing On Afghan Cave Complex

The U.S. military is intensifying its focus on an extensive terrorist cave complex and other areas around the eastern Afghan city of Khost, the site of heavy U.S.-led bombing since last weekend.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said it's a huge network of buildings, bunkers and a warren of underground caves. Gen. Richard Myers said it was used as a training camp and contained an enormous amount of weapons and ammunition. Myers said, for that reason, it will continue to be a target of U.S. warplanes.

U.S. military officials have identified two men captured near the complex as top-level al-Qaida fighters. The military's hoping for valuable war information from them and the cell phones and computers seized with the two.

In all, U.S. forces are holding more than 300 suspected Taliban or al-Qaida members. Some of them are to be moved to a top-security prison at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.