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Gates asks anew for plan to close Guantanamo (AP)

December 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized

Mustafa Ait Idir, one of three Algerians released this week from the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, talks to Reuters at his Sarajevo home on December 17, 2008, about the seven years spent in the prison where he said that he went through the worst kinds of torture. The trio returned to their adopted homeland of Bosnia the day before as the first prisoners released under court order from the U.S. military base. (Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked for an updated proposal for closing the controversial prison holding terrorist suspects in Cuba in case President-elect Barack Obama asks for one soon after taking office.


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