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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Barack Obama has vowed no retreat on
closing Guantánamo Bay, branding the prison a “mess” and
charging that Bush-era anti-terror tactics were rooted in fear and
ideology. Obama also raised the prospect of holding the most
dangerous al-Qaeda detainees indefinitely in US “super-max”
jails, in a Thursday speech designed to recapture the initiative
in a row over his national security policies.
Hours after he spoke, the US Senate approved a
$91.3-billion 2009 budget supplement to pay for the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan through October 1—but without funds to close the
prison camp at the US naval base in Cuba, after days of acrimonious
debate.
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