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Obama speeds relocating Gitmo detainees overseas (AP)

June 13th, 2009 Posted in Politics

FILE - In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees, who at the time were cleared for release but had no country to go to, show a home-made note to visiting members of the media, at Camp Iguana detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Palau, an archipelago in the Pacific ocean, has agreed to accept 17 Chinese Uighurs, the last remaining Uighurs at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration's decision to close the prison camp. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)AP - The Obama administration has begun shipping newly cleared Guantanamo Bay inmates abroad, including three sent at week's end to Saudi Arabia, to regain momentum in its effort to close the prison camp at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.


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