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Obama to announce plans to lift ban on sending Guantanamo detainees to Yemen

President Obama will announce Thursday that the White House plans to lift the ban on sending detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, Fox News confirms, a move that could effectively resume efforts to close down the prison.That effort, however, has been stymied because many countries don't want the detainees or are unwilling or unable to guarantee that once transferred, detainees who may continue to be a threat will not be released.There are currently about 166 prisoners at Guantanamo, and 86 have been approved for transfer as long as security restrictions are met.This week, the Pentagon asked Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo prison. More than 100 of the prisoners have launched a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention, and the military earlier this month was force-feeding 30 of them to keep them from starving to death.Since his inauguration in January 2009, Obama has pushed for shutting the prison, signing an executive order f...

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