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Senate: don't release Gitmo detainees into U.S.

 

Published 5/20/2009 by js609163 at CNN Political Ticker

The Senate passed a bill today that would prevent detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison from being transferred into the United States. WASHINGTON (CNN) – The U.S. Senate passed a measure Wednesday that would prevent detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from being transferred to the United States for [...] (link)

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