In this photo taken Wednesday, May 13, 2009 and reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama says he is restarting U.S. military tribunals for the small number of terrorist suspects among all the detainees held at Guantanamo, though with several new legal protections for defendants. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)Obama: 50 Gitmo Detainees Cleared For Transfer -- Yahoo News/AP
WASHINGTON – Forty-eight terror suspects currently held at Guantanamo Bay are waiting to be released to other nations, the Obama administration said Thursday.
The detainees are among 50 whose cases have already been reviewed, President Barack Obama said Thursday, pointing to efforts to empty the prison without bringing all its inmates to the United States.
Two other detainees have been released since January, to Britain and France, officials said.
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