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Published 12/19/2008 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

A detainee is seen through a fence in July at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked Pentagon staff to draw up plans for shutting the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a Pentagon spokesman said. The camp holds about 250 suspected terrorists, down from a [...] (link)

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