U.S. has decided fate of half Guantanamo detainees

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Source: Reuters

By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has decided the fate of about half the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, and no more than a quarter of them will go on trial, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama's order for the prison for foreign terrorism suspects on a naval base in Cuba to be closed by the end of January has met resistance in Congress where some lawmakers are opposing any transfers to the United States.

Last week nine prisoners were transferred to Saudi Arabia, Bermuda, Iraq and Chad. One prisoner, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, accused of involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, was sent to New York and became the first detainee transferred to the United States for trial by civilian court.

"We've gone through about half of the detainees at this point," Holder said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55G6EE20090617

[underpants]

1. OMG! Cheney cut them in half!?!?!??!

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2. It appears that they are looking at one case/detainee per day, and doing a thorough examination

of the evidence and circumstances that brought them here. Also, whether any of that is admissable.

Then if there isn't enough evidence to convict or even just go to trial, they'll release them.

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3. kick