House-Senate panel offers plan for Gitmo detainees

Thursday, October 8, 2009

WASHINGTON -- In a partial victory for President Obama's bid to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, key congressional negotiators adopted a plan Wednesday to permit terror suspects held there to continue to be transferred into the United States to face trial.

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