Not In My Backyard: Obama Faces Gitmo Closure Backlash

Fox News: House Democratic leaders weighed in Wednesday with a plan that would block any release of Guantanamo detainees within the United States but that would allow them to be shipped to the U.S. to stand trial or to serve their sentences. Today, the House debates a $96 billion emergency spending bill to wind down the war in Iraq and fund operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but the bill provides no money to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

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