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Friday
Dec032010

Where Guantanamo detainees go

President Obama signed an order shortly after taking office to close the Guantánamo Bay prison within one year. But the deadline passed as it became harder than the administration expected to transfer the detainees. A secret cache of State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations reveals painstaking efforts by the United States to transfer detainees away from the prison under both the Bush and Obama administrations.

(via NYT)

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