Senate blocks Guantanamo shutdown

Thursday, May 21, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Wednesday to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.

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